INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RESEARCH

International Human Research

International Human Research

Introduction

From the past two decades, there are a number of workers and clients that culturally differ from one another. Sometimes they differ in terms of linguistically or culturally. Therefore, it has become important that employees in organizations must understand the cultural diversification in organizations that can help flourishing work relationship.

Discussion

Culture is no synonym to art or ethnicity. Moreover, everyone within the culture is not same. People are influenced by the sub culture that is followed by people in the organization. Mainly the organizational culture is composed of two main dimension i.e. the dominant culture and sub-culture.

Definition of Culture

Culture can be defined as learning behavior that exists within the same group. Culture is a system of different norms and values that decide how individual should behave in society. It reflects laws, rules and regulations which must be followed by individual. Culture is a term that highlights all aspects of quality of life as individuals. It is the sum of all the ways that build living group of human beings which is transmitted from one generation to another generation.

Dominant Culture

The dominant culture is a culture that prevails in the society refers to various behaviors, language, values and social customs. It includes certain norms that are important for societies as whole. In a society where multi dimension culture prevails, dominant culture is promoted by the majority of employee belonging to similar culture.

Sub-Culture

Sub- culture also prevails in the society and part of the minority style culture. The sub-culture interpreted in society with respect to the subversive values of individuals. Sub-Culture is related to the regional, ethical, economical and social group that exhibits dissimilar patterns of significant behavior which discriminates these individuals from others.

Cultural Misunderstanding

Communities are influenced by the development of ideas and attitudes. This process of influencing cultural parties that follows rules of culture is known as Socialization. It depends upon the exposure of various cultures on groups at the same time. Within the work environment, cultural misunderstanding is common and very general. Employees from different backgrounds develop conflicts with clients from who are from other culture because it impacts their effectiveness of service delivery (Smith, 2002).

Problems from Cultural Misunderstanding

There are several problems that might arise from the increasing trends of the multi cultural work environment. Disputes are mainly related to the verbal and non verbal communications. Moreover, there are different altitudes of conflicts that can influence the decision ...