Class exercise on managing diversity on specific grounds:

Managing diversity:

 The presentation offered a particular view of the diversity because it tried to approach to the people as the main subject this topic

Why is it important?

Because it helps to improve the relations with societies, improve creativity, decision making, open to innvovation, create cohesion, respect for others among others.

According to our classmates, tha management of diversity relies on tolerance and self control to overcome despite how difficult it could be.

 

For some the affirmative action is a false way which drawn to a bigger polarization among detractors and supporters.

The test we made as activity afeter the presentation there were presented a list of profiles which describe as better as possible thye acctitudse of every one in the ground of managing diversity:

My result was a SHAPER which is refered to be a challenging, dynamic and a pressure man.

References:

1. Prue Burns,  Jan Schapper. (2008). The Ethical Case for Affirmative Action. Journal of Business Ethics, 83(3), 369-379.  Retrieved March 8, 2009, from ABI/INFORM Global database. (Document ID: 1597723171)

 

Exploring diversity:

Exploring diversity: In the presentation of this important topic there were exposed matters like the multiculturalism, stereotypes which are, in my opinion, one of the most predominant and pervasive realities present in the university.

One of the best places to analkyse this topic can be in a university as, in fact, i made trough pictures of diverse people like this one:

There was a greater topic took by our classmates in their prresentation which was the invitation to think different, trying to think different because it would improve the creativy letting the same old ideas back.

Is there a real respectable diversity nowadays?

One of the contemporarey effects of the prejudice is the racism despite most of the organizations today become demographicallly diverse and promote values of integration and respect for differences when in real work for a internal independence and differentiation assuming  as strangers to whom have a different cultural background.

there is much work to do about the proccess of cultural assimilation because the reality shows the people, we the people, are very disparaging.

references:

1. Rosalie L Tung.  (1993). Managing Cross-National and Intra-National Diversity. Human Resource Management (1986-1998), 32(4), 461.  Retrieved March 8, 2009, from ABI/INFORM Global database. (Document ID: 389594001).

2. Chao C Chen,  Wayne Eastman. (1997). Toward a civic culture for multicultural organizations. The Journal of Applied Behavioral Science, 33(4), 454-470.  Retrieved March 8, 2009, from ABI/INFORM Global database. (Document ID: 23513145).

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National and organizational cultures

“Culture consists of patterns, explicit and implicit of and for behavior acquired and transmitted by symbols, constituting the distinctive achievement of human groups, including their embodiment in artifacts; the essential core of culture consists of traditional ideas and especially their attached values. Culture systems may, on the one hand, be considered as products of action, on the other hand, as conditioning elements of future action”. 

Alfred Louis Kroeber and Clyde Kluckholn (1961).

There are several concepts bound by the concept of culture like "nation", "national culture", "organization" and "organizational culture" among others. In other words, the culture have different stages to be assumed. beginning by a wider scenary, the nation envolves shared feelings, a common religion (sometimes), and specially a general common sense of belonging.

A national culture is  subject of deeper analysis of nation with the the same characteristics but driven by a total historical recognition of the nation and an official  society which recognize the roots of the nation in terms of etchnis.

The organization is a more compact group of people whom pursue several kinds of goals by a team work managing the organizational relational trough different mechanism from outside, in other words, the human dynamic of the organization is totally different from the dynamic of  the homes or beteween the families. The organizations also pursue benefits for the society.

Talking about the organizational culture there is no better explanataion about this like Charles W. L. Hill, and Gareth R. Jones give us: “Is the specific collection of values and norms that are shared by people and groups in an organization and that control the way they interact with each other and with stakeholders outside the organization".

The concept of culture, how does it survive in  the contemporary times?

There is a clear crisis of culture today starting by the point that people used to live their cultures by different ways than nowadays and the different rules and ideologies become harmful for the concept.

Sometimes the people try to build a culture trough their thoughts, behaviors and also try to protect it because finally it results of the idea of a better society.

For example the different trade unions of South Africa have been fighting to make respect their national, economic, and labor environment. the fight has a clear motive which is the trying of the government to apply standards of unions of the western countries in tha national unions with rare reforms and political pressures.

The huge presence of the trade unions of the country limits the ideas of the government and this show the strong participation of this group which think in the collectivist organization.

The election of Barack Obama is a clear example of how culture not only change but also evolve with  the merge of new figures, in that case Obama, representing a crossing of different cultures.

References:

Poniewozik, J. (2009, February 2). Pop Goes Washington. Time, 173(4), 30-30. Retrieved March 8, 2009, from Business Source Premier database.

Buhlungu, S. (2009, March). The Rise and Decline of the Democratic Organizational Culture in the South African Labor Movement, 1973 to 2000. Labor Studies Journal, 34(1), 91-111. Retrieved March 8, 2009, from Business Source Premier database.

 

 

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The corporation:

Taken from www.thecorporation.com/index.cfm?page_id=12

the corporation is very uncomfortable but necesary film which launch realities of many corporations that permits create a self rational judgement about the overall dynamics

of  the organizations and not only that, it expose the development of the contemporary societes wich create unnecesary needs that afterwards people use to feel essential.

Taken from http://www.blogger.com/post-create.g?blogID=229212074292745780

What is real, what is not?

The documental shows truths  but also leave things to miss because in some parts there is a kind of vagueness