...Ashford 6: - Week 5 - Final Paper Final Paper: Oral History Interview Paper Throughout the course, you will be exploring various aspects of culture and intercultural communications. Your final assignment in this course will be to conduct an extensive oral history interview with a person who is somewhat older than you and from a culture or subgroup that you are not a member of. This person can be a relative or acquaintance who is from a different generation. It can be someone who immigrated to this country either recently or some time ago. Or, it can be someone who belongs to a different subgroup from you and whose cultural experiences you believe would be very different from your own. Obtain permission from the person you are interviewing to record the conversation (either an audio or a video and audio recording) or to take handwritten notes during the interview. Your overarching goals during the oral history interview are as follows: 1. To learn more about the culture and subcultures to which your interview subject belongs. 2. To determine what issues they encountered in terms of intercultural communications. 3. To relate concepts you have studied in this course to the experiences of this person. After you have conducted the interview, review your recording or your notes and write a six- to eight-page paper (excluding a title page and a reference page), in which you discuss aspects of this person's culture and/or subcultures and communication issues related to his or...
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...During their lives, each person has contact with violence, whether they are the victim, the perpetrator, an observer, or a combination of these roles. The culture of a certain group of people emphasizes and explains these violent actions in different ways. It can be described from an anthropological perspective as well, but that description can vary from the explanations given within a specific culture. Through a series of interviews with university students, I found that their explanations of violence were actually quite similar to the anthropological perspective. Specifically, both the interviews and the anthropological studies emphasized the relationship between violence and culture, the ways that social structures determine the practices...
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...Option: Personal Interview Introduction to Assignment: The experiential learning paper should be an extensive and thoughtful research paper which synthesizes scholarly research and personal experience. Synthesize means to blend and create something new and unique, so you will combine your research with your experience to create a new understanding of the topic. The paper should be at least 5-6 pages long (including cover page, but not reference pages), citing at least three scholarly sources in addition to the information provided through the course texts and classroom lectures/discussions. It should include research and reflection components, and will represent 20% of the student’s course grade. The finished paper should be typed, double-spaced with 12-point font, and one-inch margins and use all appropriate APA conventions. It should be free from spelling, punctuation or usage errors. All experiential learning papers should also include, at minimum, the four critical components and best practices for experiential learning described below: 1. BUILDING A FOUNDATION FOR THE EXPERIENCE: Conducting Research and Pre-Reflection (Frontloading) 2. HAVING THE EXPERIENCE: Observing and Describing the Concrete Experience 3. REFLECTING ON THE EXPERIENCE: Considering Lessons Learned and Abstract Conceptualizations 4. APPLYING THE EXPERIENCE TO FUTURE SITUATIONS: Using New Knowledge through Active Experimentation Instructions for Personal Interview We each see the world through lenses...
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...The cultural heritage background family culture template tools are created with and aim to understand the different cultures conduct their daily activates or life. Using family cultural template is important in helping interviewer know the question to ask about family role/gender, family role on education, marriage etc., view on alternative lifestyle, spiritual belief on death and dying, cultural education and occupational status, communication, food. Outfit and what offend them most. I chose these two interviewees because I really want to know more about my culture through my family member because I must understand my culture to know other people cultures also, interview my neighbor because I want to know their culture to understand how to treat or care for the patient from Chinese cultural background. Our cultural background affects our insight of other. When interviewing my neighbor from China, I notice that their culture accentuates on a collective tactic compared to the Africa culture that do not promotes individualism. Below are details of the interview I conducted presenting some of the similarities and difference between...
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...Interview Your goal is to get them talking. Listen for what is said, what is implied, what is not said. Try not to insert your opinions and experience. Start the interview by explaining who you are and why you are interviewing them. Thank them sincerely for giving you their time and thoughts. Be sensitive throughout the interview to whether the person wants to continue. Sample Interview Questions Start with questions that are easy and comfortable to answer: 1. What kind of work do you do? Office manager in a professional medical setting 2. How long have you been doing it? 18 years 3. Can you describe a typical work day? Schedule surgery, verify insurance for new patients and oversight of the daily workings of the office. Then move to questions that require more thought and rapport with the interviewer: 1. Why did you end up doing this work? What kind of person often does this sort of work? (And would they consider themselves typical?) my son had an injury and I met the doctor, when I assisted with a translation the doctor offered me a position and I have been there ever since. 2. What do you like about this work? I love meeting new people, I work with the doctors, but mostly it is the people I like working with. 3. What is difficult about this work? The staff, I have issues with the staff in general. Not enough time to do all the jobs I am asked to do in a day. I am also forced to cover other jobs and still be responsible for my own position...
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...[pic] Human Resources By the end of this unit you will understand: ❖ The role of the Human Resources Department ❖ The culture of an organisation ❖ Organisational structures ❖ Working practices available to employees within different types of businesses ❖ The recruitment process ❖ Contract of Employment ❖ Appraisal Part 1 – Human Resources The role of the Human Resources Department The human resources (HR) department is responsible for managing the staffing of an organisation. These responsibilities including hiring new staff (recruitment), providing staff training, carrying out staff appraisal and any other issues relating to staff welfare. The staff in this department will usually have some knowledge of employment law and will be able to advise the organisation in this area. Organisational Culture Different organisations operate in different ways. Some organisations operate in a formal way, whereas others are more relaxed. In the past, the culture of an organisation has been described as ‘The way things get done around here’. While one culture may work for one organisation, a different culture may work for another. It is, however, important that everyone working for that organisation understands, and works well within, the culture of that organisation. TASK 1 Like many organisations, schools have a set of values and everyone in the school – students and staff – will...
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...appropriate in conversations with them. The impact that emotions have in interpersonal communication, obstacles an interviewer faces when dealing with clients and their emotions, and assessing client’s culture and the impact it has on the interviewer will be discussed in this paper. In Human Services, emotions can impact the way human service workers ask questions and their responses to the client. The worker can gain advantage of a client’s emotions by using empathy. Empathy is listening to the client, sharing and understanding their concerns or feelings. Emotions are the way a client feels or reacts to something that was said or shared with them using nonverbal communication. A client’s emotional reactions can have a negative or positive result if a human service worker can maintain appropriate eye contact and body language. This means looking at the client with your eyes so as to encourage them to keep talking (Evans, Hearn, Uhlemann, & Ivey, 2011). Three obstacles an interviewer has to prevail when conducting interviews with clients are culture, religion, and gender. They also have to control the client’s emotions. This is one of the hardest things for the interviewer to do. Emotional outbursts cause more problems for the interviewer than any other part of the interview. Negative aspects of emotions is they cause the client to shut down during an...
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...The Influence of Heritage on Current Culture Evaluation of how family subscribes to these traditions and practices is offered in detail, while offering insight and/or reflection.It is essential for nurses to provide culturally sensitive care to each and every patient in order to establish repor and maintain a safe working relationship with each individual. To provide culturally sensitive care to a nurses patient’s he or she must first assess their own beliefs, values, and culture at large. The nurse can do this by using the Heritage Assessment Tool. This tool shows the nurse how important their heritage is to them and if they have adopted their ways of life from their family’s history and influence. This gives the nurse a starting point for his or her own competency because once the nurse knows their own beliefs they will know what to keep in mind as their own biases that may hinder or limit care of their patients. The Heritage Assessment tool can then be used with the nurses’ patients in assessing how much they follow their cultural heritage. When interviewing families from different cultures one can see the disparities between them and their perception of their health maintenance, health protection, and health restoration. Applying the Heritage Assessment in Evaluating the Needs of the Whole Person The Heritage Assessment is a useful tool in evaluating the needs of the patient and in being able to provide holistic patient care. The Heritage Assessment Tool assesses whether...
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...issue and a variety of views. The three main characters she interviews in the documentary are Arabizi speakers Aysha Al Khaldi, Lamya Tawfeq and Wisam Dhubaibah. Among the other interviewees are academics (what do you mean academics), a producer at MBC, and Arab locals. The documentary grabs the viewers’ attention by combining contradictory points of view from experts in education, while also allowing the viewer to listen to the Arabizi speakers' and their parents'/friends' point of views. Due to globalization, in today's world the west has become the center of power, and control. The western invasion of the east, has led Arabs to welcome the idea of combining the western and eastern culture, or completely eliminating the Arab culture and replacing it with that of the west without hesitation. The documentary acknowledges this, when Dalia Al Khury interviews Dr. Hisham Ghaseeb, Dean of "Princess Sumaya University" in Jordan. He aims to awaken the Arab nations' consciousness, in order to do so, he encourages Arabs to incorporate the Arabic culture and language back into their lives. Dr. Hisham believes that the new trend of Arabizi has become very common, because the westerns are seen as the "modern civilization makers". He affirms his position by bringing up a strong argument: that Arabizi speakers tend to "imitate" the western language and habits, rather than mastering and embracing their own language and culture. He attacks those who stray...
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...* The theory behind this dissertation is to access the theory that setting up the right culture is important in the start-up of a company. The company that the research is been done on is Alstom. Research Background * Alstom is a multinational company which is a world leader in transport infrastructure, power generation and transmission. Alstom is in 70 countries worldwide and has 93,000 employees. This research is been done on Alstom Transport Global Solutions (TGS) maintenance .This is a part of the transport infrastructure division of Alstom. This part of Alstom is in accession and is relative small with only four sites at present worldwide (Barcelona, Athens and Dublin). But there are three more sites coming online in 2011 Jerusalem (Israel), Algiers (Algeria) and Rheims (France) and five more in tender. * As more sites are coming on line this is leading to problems for Alstom TGS maintenance. As they are having to set up organisations from the ground up in these new countries and having to adopted to the different countries and trying to adopt the best practices into these new sites and learn from the mistakes on other sites. * To counter this Alstom TGS France have setup a program called the IM2k (infrastructure mobilisation maintenance kit) program to try to rectify this problem this is a mobilisation kit for new projects. The IM2K takes the best practices from all the sites and put them together to create a kit for the start-up of new project. This...
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...3 worthy candidates with diverse profiles. Stephen was also approached by Anita Armstrong on behalf of a fourth candidate, Seth Horkum. · RSH is strong in its Research Division. · Stephen Connor, director of RSH, was worried over the departure of a star analyst performer in its semi – conductor area. · RSH’s culture was built on team-oriented approach. · Employee turnover was low. The Star semi-conductor analyst has retired. The post is urgently in need of skilled analyst in the domain because of an upcoming deal with POWERCHIP Company. The junior analyst, Rina was promoted to senior analyst as a stop-gap solution. But the Director had to come across a new person immediately. He creates a pool of eligible candidates – Gerald Baum, David Hughes, Sonia Metha and Seth Horkum. Pre-screening of candidates was commenced by Director through Personal Interviews. Another series of interviews were conducted and feedbacks from their colleagues were taken. The information from the interviews and the feedbacks from the colleagues were used to create profiles on the four candidates. Problems faced by Stephen Connor Connor faces pressure from his boss, and counterparts in trading and sales to find a suitable replacement for Thompson and...
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...Assessment of Families with Heritage Assessment Tool Grand Canyon University September 2, 2014 Assessment of Families with Heritage Assessment Tool Each country has a different tradition, culture, customs and anindividual’scultural legacy plays a very important part in upgrading the health of that person. According to various sources, United States will observe an immense increase in mixture of cultures in the 21stcentury. Nurses should have a proper knowledge about the patient’s health who belonged to various cultures, and their social needs, in order to enrich their life’s value and the protection of health.Each patient will have different beliefs of their well-being and nurses should be able to recognize, evaluate and work with conventional health habits used by patients of all cultures A teaching method that endorse cultural skills can bedeveloped by educating nursing students about patients heritage evaluation and tradition (Toddmckee, 2012). The heritage assessment tool aids to differentiate various customs and culture of different societies. The main aim of this paper is to apply the heritage assessment tool to evaluate the requirements of a person and his health preservation, assertion, and renewal. In this paper, evaluation of three families, their family background, their culture and tradition is been discussed. Usefulness of Applying Heritage Assessment Tool The purpose of this Heritage Assessment tool is to provide awareness to students which will help them to understand...
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...Organizational Culture When you look into the Zappos organization you will dins their core values everywhere. They are not just words written in a company pamphlet of posted on a wall somewhere. The values and culture actually shows in their employees and customer service. The ten family core values that Zappos bases its culture on are: • Deliver WOW Through Service • Embrace and Drive Change • Create Fun and A Little Weirdness • Be Adventurous, Creative, and Open-Minded • Pursue Growth and Learning • Build Open and Honest Relationships With Communication • Build a Positive Team and Family Spirit • Do More With Less • Be Passionate and Determined • Be Humble At Zappos they believe that if you get the culture right everything like great customer service, building a great team, having passionate employees and customer will all happen on its own. At Zappos the culture all starts at the hiring process. The way that Zappos hires new employees contributes greatly to their culture. At Zappos a person has to go through two different sets of interviews. The first interview is done by the hiring manager and his or her team. What they look for in a person is relevant experience, technical ability, and fit within the team. The second interview is done by the Human Relation Department and they are only looking for a cultural fit Organizational Culture of that person. If a potential employee doesn’t pass both interviews they are not hired. If a person is hired they...
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...Collage: Personal Cultural Identity My ancestors came from Germany, Sweden, and Norway. My ancestor’s journey was by ship and landed in Ellis Island. What I value about my culture is my family and how important they are. I also value how we depend on one another to get through the day. Sisters, brothers, nieces and nephew, son and daughters. To be an American is to have the freedom to do what I want. To love the country I live in and respect the people who fought for my freedom. Citizenship is a feeling of belonging to a country and standing up for the country that you love. Being able to vote, pay taxes, and defend my country. Part Two: Interview: Cultural Identity Use the questions below to interview one adult: 1. When did your ancestors come here? Carol Moriscato grandparents came from Italy in the 1800’s. 2. What process did they take to make the journey? They came over by boat. They each had to have a relative in the USA to sponsor their trip. They also had to promise to have a job. 3. What do you consider to be your culture? Carol said that pretty much their culture was American. 4. When did you first become aware of your culture? When Carol was about 8 or 9 she realized she was Italian when she heard her grandparents speaking Italian on the phone with relative that still lived in Italy. 5. What do you value about your culture? Carol stated that what she values most about her culture is how close and the importance of family. 6....
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...DIVERSITY INTERVIEW ASSIGNMENT Your assignment is to interview someone who is culturally different from you. During this activity exercise, you will have the opportunity to engage with an individual who identifies themself as coming from a background or culture that is not your own. PART I: FINDING YOUR INTERVIEWEE Using the list below, review the potential categories of identity. In one color, highlight the categories that you identify with. Then find someone that identifies with a different term(s) than you. Highlight those terms with a different color. For example, if you are African American, find someone who is European American, Caribbean American or from another country. Or, you might interview someone who identifies as middle or upper middle or upper class if you come from a working class background. If you are Hindu, you might interview someone who is Jewish, Muslim or Christian. If you identify as heterosexual, you might interview someone who identifies themselves as bisexual, transgender, lesbian, or gay. Class: Middle-class Upper-class Working-class Religion: Atheist/Agnostic Buddhist Christian Hindu Jewish Muslim Other: ________________ Nationality: U.S.-American Other:___________________ Age: Senior Citizen Race/Ethnicity: African American Asian American European American Native American Southeast Asian Caucasian American Hispanic American Middle Eastern American Other:___________________ Gender Identity: ...
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