What does silence communicate to you? How is your culture’s use of silence connected to Hall’s cultural patterns of low and high context? Provide concrete examples. 250- words.
Category: Culture
Culture (HISPANIC) and how it address family violence.
dentify your culture (HISPANIC) and how it address family violence.
In your opinion, what is the best way for a family therapist to bring up the issues of abuse and violence in a family when those are not the problems that family members have identified?
Culture (HISPANIC) and how it address family violence.
dentify your culture (HISPANIC) and how it address family violence.
In your opinion, what is the best way for a family therapist to bring up the issues of abuse and violence in a family when those are not the problems that family members have identified?
Cross-cultural leadership team from AGC’s subsidiaries
Respond to the scenario below with your thoughts, ideas, and comments. Be substantive and clear, and use research to reinforce your ideas.
You and Shawn met yesterday with the members of a cross-cultural leadership team from AGC’s subsidiaries to discuss a change in AGC’s human capital management goals. The team concluded that if AGC does not change, it may not survive in today’s global environment. To fully diagnose the problems at AGC, they recommended that data be gathered and analyzed. The team asked you to prepare a presentation describing how you will diagnose the problems at AGC.
Review the AGC scenario for this course and prepare an 8 slides, 150-200 words speaker notes presentation that addresses the following:
Describe why making a diagnosis is a critical part of a change management plan.
Identify at least 3 current human capital management problems at AGC.
For each problem that you have identified, describe a data collection method (such as interviews, focus groups, or performance appraisals) that you could use to gather data about the problem and from which employee groups you will gather the data.
For each problem that you have identified, describe how you will draw conclusions from the data that you have gathered.
Summarize your conclusions regarding the problems at AGC, and identify the root cause of each problem.
The materials found in the M.U.S.E. may help you with this assignment. Additional information is also provided in the Lessons from Experience series found at the following link:
The converging cultures: view the video “Dreams and Visions”.
The converging cultures: view the video “Dreams and Visions”. compare how imaged scenes speak to real world concerns? And answer the following questions.
Look carefully at each image.
1. Both Lam and Bosch created fantasy worlds that are rooted in their impressions of reality. How important do you think it is to understand the social and historical context for each work?
2. Describe the original context of each of these artworks was found. Remember that the context includes the time period, intended audience (culture) as well as the location.
How do these factors add to your understanding of the work’s meaning and the value attached to visions in each case?
3. Identify the two different approaches to spiritual visions by 17th century Spanish painters.
Regarding the portrayal of visions, what is a key difference between the approaches by Buddhist painters and those of Western artist.
4. What element occurs repeatedly across cultures to represent evil?
Different best practices for a culturally responsive teaching
1. In the first paragraph, do the authors ever give you their opinion on the “instructional recommendations for culturally responsive literacy practices?” How many different sources do they cite in this section?
2. From pages 8-13, the authors discuss different best practices for a culturally responsive teaching environment. Identify the five specific strategies that they discussed. In this section, are the authors introducing original strategies for the culturally responsive classroom?
3. Examine the section entitled “Dialogue” (pp. 8-9). What are the two recommendations discussed for the use of dialogue in culturally responsive ways? On page 8, Kim, et. al (2006) present collaborative strategic reading as a way to help students develop literacy skills. Please name some of the other recommendations for dialogue between students and teachers that follow this source. How do the other recommendations relate to the ideas proposed by Kim, et. al (2006)? Remember to cite the sources in your response.
4. As a result of having read this article, please write a few sentences about what you might have learned about a) synthesizing sources or b) culturally responsive teaching practices for diverse populations.
Ethical Leadership and Corporate Culture
If the goal of corporate culture is to cultivate values, expectations, beliefs, and patterns of behavior that best and most effectively support ethical decision making, it becomes the primary responsibility of corporate leadership to steward this effort. Leaders are charged with this duty in part because stakeholders throughout the organization are guided to a large extent by the “tone at the top.” This is not at all to relieve leaders throughout an organization from their responsibilities as role models, but instead to suggest the pinnacle position that the executive leader plays in setting the direction of the culture. In fact, neither can be successful independent of the other; there must be a consistent tone throughout the firm.
Trustworthiness is among the key virtues of ethical leadership. (A more detailed examination of trust is presented in Chapter 10.) An ethical leader must be reliable and dependable, worthy of the trust that the entire organization places in them. We have seen cases in which employees at Wells Fargo and Facebook believed that they could not rely on management to do the right thing. The very existence of whistle-blowers, like the former employees at Facebook, can only occur when employees lack trust that senior leaders will not do the ethical right thing.
Unfortunately, according to one study published in 2013, senior leaders are more likely than lower-level employees to break rules, and 60% of misconduct reported is attributed to managers.17 This is an alarming trend that should be considered by businesses as they develop their ethics and compliance training programs. Ralph Larsen, past chair and CEO of Johnson & Johnson, explains: “Being bound together around the values . . . around our credo . . . being bound together around values is like the trim tab for leadership at Johnson & Johnson.”18 Seventy-five years after the credo was introduced, company leadership still has regular “credo sessions,” where current CEO Alex Gorsky will guide top executives through a review of the credo and facilitate a discussion on what is working and what is not.19
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If a leader is perceived to be shirking her or his duties, misusing corporate assets, misrepresenting the firm’s capabilities, or engaging in other inappropriate behavior, stakeholders receive the message that this type of behavior is not only acceptable but perhaps expected and certainly the way to get ahead in that organization! Consider the responsibilities of leaders, both for their own actions and also for the decisions and actions of the leaders that precede them. Mary Barra, CEO of General Motors, had to answer for the prior wrongs of her predecesso
The Clash of Cultures
- Select a current event (e.g., entertainment, political, national/local news stories, etc.) in
which there is a clash of cultures involving group identities. The group identity does not
have to be racial or ethnic, but may also include groups based on gender, political or
religious affiliations, sexual orientation, etc. Designate one group as “Culture A” and the
other as “Culture B.”
Provide an objective and concise overview of the presenting problem. What is the event
or incident that triggered the clash? - What message is Culture A trying to convey? What are the important issues and what
would it mean to them to see their desires fulfilled? What is the fear if these desires are
not fulfilled? In what ways might they be blind to their own contributions to the problem? - What message is Culture B trying to convey? What are the important issues and what
would it mean to them to see their desires fulfilled? What is the fear if these desires are
not fulfilled? In what ways might they be blind to their own contributions to the problem? - Evaluate the situation from the perspective of the Tao or Natural Law. What objective
values do each culture appeal to (e.g., Special Beneficence, Justice, Truthfulness, etc.)?
What additional values would be important to the conversation? In your response,
demonstrate that these values are universal and not limited by ethnocentric
monoculturalism. - What recommendations would you make to move forward? How might each culture
embrace mutual responsibility? Does the situation require an innovative solution unique
to both cultures? If you believe one culture is “right,” make sure you show this from the
perspective of the Tao or Natural Law.
Crossing Culture
Read on Japonisme and Western Artists “Crossing Cultures”
Imagine that James Whistler and Mary Cassatt are members of a panel discussion on the influence of Japanese prints on their works. it is crucial that you find out things on the two artists, their works, and characteristics of Japanese prints that were available at that time.
- Compose a sentence that is a question that you would like to ask one of the two artists regarding their work.
The three questions should not be a simple fact request, but one that indicates some understanding of the issues raised AND it should be answerable within a reasonable level. INCLUDE the name of the artist that you are addressing.
- Then compose a sentence that is a reply to the questions, indicating that you have an understanding about the artist and his or her work.
Justice Systems Languages
Throughout this semester, we have explored the role institutions play in oppressing and uplifting African Americans. For this research paper, you will analyze an institution and its impact on African Americans.
Questions:
1) How did that particular institution oppress African Americans?
2) In conjunction with other systems, how did that institution assist in marginalizing African Americans?
3) Why was the institution created to restrict African Americans?
4) How did the institution benefit African Americans?
5) How did African Americans gain access to that institution?
6) Where does that institution stand in regards to African Americans today?
Institution:
Justice Systems Languages