Reflection On Culture And Diversity - 796 Words

1. From my perspective, when I think of diverse contexts, I think of a great variety of influences and events interrelated to a particular situation. The relationship between culture and diversity is a great variety of groups represented within a community. These variety of groups are formed by race, ethnicity, age, ability, language, nationality, socioeconomic status, gender, religion and sexual orientation. As an African American who is aware of the difficult challenges (such as slavery and segregation) that my culture has endured, it has taught me to respect social, political, and cultural differences that characterizes the people in this country. I am knowledgeable and educated on cultural differences, which has taught me to embrace†¦show more content†¦2. From Chapter 1 in our Reframing Organizations text, the symbolic frame makes the most sense to me because it focuses on the issues of meaning and faith. It puts ritual, ceremony, play, story and culture at the heart of the organizational life. From my perspective, the symbolic frame doesn’t focus on the event but rather the meaning of that particular event. This specific frame was easier to comprehend than the other three frames. 3. As I reflected on the Dilbert cartoon, I believe the content of the narrative to ring true. For example, I previously worked as a customer service representative for New York and Company. There were many instances where I felt like customers didn’t receive proper customer service and the rules of the company were unethical. On my end, I didn’t agree with how the customers were handled. I expressed my dissatisfaction to management and I was informed that as long as I wanted to be employed by this company, I had to follow their rules. Eventually I resigned from my position because I felt guilty about how things were conducted by the company. 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