Cross-Cultural Interview Analysis

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Arab and Muslim cultures. I was so grateful for the fantastic opportunity to get to know H’s story.” Another stated, “I appreciated his willingness to speak openly about his culture and I am grateful to have had the opportunity to explore his culture and hear firsthand about his own experiences.” One student stated, “I was excited to learn about a new culture.” Therefore, the experience of the Cultural Assessment Interview may have created the capacity for self-criticism, one measure of self-awareness. During to the interview, interviewee tended to refer to their experiences. Even so, the experience-based responses might have been affected by extraneous cues including the race, gender, and/or language of the interviewer as seen from the viewpoint of the interviewee, since some responses contained allusions to shared experiences. Interviewees’ responses seldom related to issues that might have been linked to politics — yet a thought-provoking finding was that the political topic and mention of affiliation to the government featured only in mono-cultural interviews. This could suggest that people who share dimensions of culture may open up to each other and talk about sensitive issues more freely than when culturally associated differences are perceived, as in the cross-cultural interviews. In business, the understanding of culturally sensitive issues has become a necessary means for survival. The study sought to find material on how diversity could be taught rather than what would be taught, using business contacts involved in diversity training for managers in various countries and asking to view their training materials. Education in cultural competency entails imparting a set of behaviors or skills, knowledge, attitudes or awareness, and policies that are necessary to become effective Business Behavior. To achieve these objectives, there is a growing consensus across disciplines as to what comprises cultural competence. Specifically, cultural competence in attitudes would include awareness of stereotyping and personal biases: racism, sexism, ableism, heterosexism and classism and how they relate to provider decision-making.

For this cross-cultural interview assignment, we can get a lots about experiences and skills from other people and make us to become self-awareness and reflection. We can get more information, some knowledge, and advices to become a good employers and successful entrepreneurs in our life. Although, the results of this interview are mixed, for most of our group’s members, the cultural competency module contributed to changes in attitudes, awareness and skills. We wish to thank to the Mr. Chris for his sharing some work knowledge and experiences as cultural broker when we made interview with him for 15 minutes. We also wish to thank Prof. Hoy Samphear for his support and introduction of the study Organization Behavior which is relate our major, too.

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