Cultural Diversity at the Workplace
Globally, cultural diversity is viewed as a pool that is in a position to accommodate variety of cultures originating from different parts of the world. It can also be described as a situation when country such as Canada accommodates all types of religion, ethnicity, race, gender etc. that are the constituents of the culture. Today, workplaces in any organization have turned out to be highly captive units in matters concerning diversification as compared to the preceding decades. Within these organizations you able identify single organization that is owned by an individual that holds a workforce that is totally diversified for a certain area that has been identified. An example is when there are individuals belonging to different ages, race, gender, generation and ethnic groups who are harmoniously working in unison for the improvement of the organization with time. Diversity can be defined as one’s way of understanding, recognizing, complying, respectful and cheerful towards the diversity in other people’s culture without considering their gender, class, age, race, sexual alignment or on basis of physical impairments. When describing diversity, there need of finding the influence it has on to the people in this essay irrespective of the one way of life or origin where all people become connected by same drive to achieve certain things both in the organization they are working for or on the entire society. In order to grasp the whole idea of diversity, this paper focuses on certain elements concerning culture and they include; Patterns of the family, Styles of Communication, Practices and Beliefs about Health and Practices of Dying and Death together with their importance in the society. It further discusses limitations or obstacles affecting cultural compassion at these workplaces with the background of organization.
Practices and Beliefs about Health
In this type of element regarding culture can be further divided in to matters holism, science and religion. When mentioning workplace, it’s a set up where employees need to accommodate one another without looking at what they belief in, religion or practice that are bound to their way of life especially from where they came from. When describing this type of element regarding diversity on basis of beliefs in the religion there is need of assessing the theory of the people through comparing and differentiating with other cultures to comprehend them on basis of the differences and similarities. For instance, in workplaces there are those employees who believe on first praying before embarking on their daily routine because it is only they think can guarantee them an effective day of work. Organization containing several diversities in this case, they ought to show solidarity in prayer by joining the other to support that believe exactly what worshippers from Tengri, Russia do, meaning one should be able to accommodate other religions without stressing on their race.