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Tales From the Corporate FrontlinesGoing International and Learning about Cultural Diversity
Going International and Learning about Cultural Diversity
This article relates to the Diversity in the Workplace Competency, commonly evaluated in employee satisfaction surveys. This competency explores whether your organization provides understanding and supports interaction among diverse population groups while respecting individuals’ personal values and ideas. Research shows that by fostering a climate where equity and mutual respect are intrinsic, an organization can create a success-oriented, cooperative and caring work environment that draws intellectual strength and produces innovative solutions from the synergy of its people. All businesses can benefit from a diverse body of talent bringing fresh ideas, perspectives, and views to the workplace. However, a diverse workforce means that the managers within your organization must be capable of capitalizing on the mixture of genders, cultural backgrounds, ages, and lifestyles present in your staff to respond to business opportunities more rapidly and creatively.
This article, Going International and Learning about Cultural Diversity, is part of AlphaMeasure’s compilation, Tales from the Corporate Frontlines. It provides insight and advice for successful communication between employees from different countries and diverse cultural backgrounds.
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Strength in Cultural Diversity – 300 Years of Anglo-Muslim Relations
The UK has a strong history of immigration, with our society being a rich and successful melting pot of cultures.
Who can forget Amir Khan draping himself in the Union Jack at the Olympics? Or white families sitting down to watch Goodness Gracious Me on the BBC? Even British cuisine has also been influenced by multi-cultural diversity and curry has become an integral part of British cuisine, so much so that, since the late 1990s, Chicken Tikka Masala has been commonly referred to as the “British national dish”.
The first large group of Muslims in Britain surprisingly arrived about 300 years ago when Indian sailors helped Britain and eventually happily settled in various port towns. From the works of Shakespeare and references to Islamic scholars in the prologue to Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, the influences of Islamic civilisation on the classic literary and philosophical traditions of the UK are forever cemented into our culture.
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San Francisco Culturally Diverse Theaters
California is a wonderful place to visit and one of the great culturally diverse cities it has to offer is San Francisco. From Asian themed plays to African-American art, the city is exploding with cultural goodness. And much of it has yet to be discovered by the masses.
If you’re in San Francisco and looking to expand your horizons, one place you may want to pay a visit to is the Asian-American Theater Company. San Francisco has a large Asian and Pacific Islander (Filipinos) population and it shows up in the performing arts.
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