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Cultural Awareness
Jen Walter
What is Cultural Awareness?
Developing sensitivity and understanding of other ethnic groups
Different from cultural knowledge and sensitivity
What is cultural knowledge?
Familiarization with other ethnic group’s culture
What is cultural sensitivity?
Knowing differences as well as similarities
Doing this without assigning values
How is it applied in the workforce?
Many Companies work internationally Requiring employees to know other
cultures Increasingly diverse workforce Cross-cultural training and orientation are
imperative
Training
Identify personal values
Understand differences
Be open to changes and diversity
Do
Training
Ignore culture Rely solely on
cultural norms
Do notDo not
Why is it important?
Employment International traveling International corporations Globalization
Cross-Cultural Issues
France, Middle East and Japan-12%
China-11% Germany-9% Italy-6%
Spain 5% South East Asia-4% Korea-3% Britain-2% Other-20%
How Companies Establish Cultural Awareness
Sources
http://www.culturalawareness.com/ http://www.casanet.org/program-management/diversity/cultural-
training.htm http://www.culturalawareness.com/ca.mov http://cecp.air.org/cultural/Q_howdifferent.htm http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://
www.kwintessential.co.uk/images/relofailure.JPG&imgrefurl=http://www.kwintessential.co.uk/cultural-services/articles/expat-cultural-training.html&h=283&w=415&sz=22&hl=en&start=24&tbnid=0AAZiARuR8aJIM:&tbnh=85&tbnw=125&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dcultural%2Bawareness%2Bcharts%26start%3D20%26gbv%3D2%26ndsp%3D20%26svnum%3D10%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DN
http://www.kwintessential.co.uk/cultural-services/articles/cross-cultural-challenges.html