Question

Cross Cultural Management

Explain “all” of the following topics:

-What diversity encompasses in the United States

-The historical background for the study of diversity

- Key diversity terms, including types of discrimination

- Minority groups and non-dominant groups

- Stereotyping, prejudice, and discrimination theories.

Answer 1

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Diversity is one of the main speciality of United States where many cultures exist at one place to create an environment of harmony and work according to their separate culture as well as integrate themselves as a society in United States of America. American culture includes many external culture in it, where many cultures from outside united States create an integral part of the society. This diversity increases efficiency of a system as well as create a more intuitive culture where different parts of the society act as a whole system and create an equilibrium between different activities happening in the respective environment.

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Diversity is what are the most important part of any society and it has been a major source of learning as well as having an understanding of different procedures at the respective environment of operation. Diversity has always been essential for organisations as well as societies for understanding other cultures as well as other traditions. Just type of learning of other cultures and traditions directly increases our understanding towards a different lifestyle and culture as well as also create possibility of learning something new that could create a huge difference in the way we live our social or professional life.

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United States equal Employment opportunity Commission can be defined as an organisation which is responsible for specifically in forcing the federal laws of discrimination against an applicant regarding the specific applicants race,sex,colour, gender identity, national origin, disability or age, etc. Discrimination against the person who reported for the discrimination is also illegal.
This specific type of law is applicable on each and every work situation including promotions, harassment,hiring,firing, training, wages, and benefits.
Intentional discrimination can be defined when a specific individual inside an organisation knowingly work against a specific individual or a group disadvantage that specific individual or group or to provide advantages to other group in competition with that specific group or individual.
A fine example of intestinal discrimination is about paying women less than men for the same task and authoritative position.
Unintentional discrimination can be defined as a type of discrimination which happens because of the ignorant or some uninterested prejudice.
An example of unintentional discrimination would be unconscious story or type of race or culture without being aware of it.

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Stereotypes is a very major problem of American Society at the current time. Each and every society has a different opinion for others. People judge each other on the basis of skin colour and origin. There is so much progress has been done in last few decades but still there are so many prejudices and stereotypes which are still a part of the American society and culture. The stereotype is being a problem to the society as most of the time people judge people on the basis of their profession. For example, a prostitute is judged as a women, who is basically addicted to drugs and had a horrible past. You cannot explain it to the public ,even if you do so nobody is going to understand your views.
Parenting and education system plays a vital role in teaching people and educating them towards stereotyping. If one's education system is right and parenting is also done rightly and he has been told that the specific ways of stereotyping are not correct and ethically wrong, is the only way of correcting views of the people from The very beginning.

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Definitely each and every person has its own standards of getting influenced by surroundings. Most of the humans have a tendency to develop change surrounded buy new environment as well as other factors which were involved in the specific environment. Each and every person has a different standard as well as process of adoption of the different stereotypes and perspectives of the society.
Society in which we live in definitely effects our overall decision making as well as the standards of stereotyping on the basis of sexuality and ethnicity. All of these approaches directly reduces the overall efficiency as well as productivity of an individual for making a specific decisions in the society and living in impact on their job. By separating both of the perceptions of the belief one can easily improve its understanding of various factors as well as provision of hair treatment to each and every person inside the society.