...Abstract 3 What is IT 4 Culture 4-5 Language 5 Do not be left behind 5 Job Outlook 5-6 Annual income 6-7 Schooling 8 References 9-10 Abstract This report is going to cover Professional Language and Culture in the Information Technology (IT) field. It also includes a brief description of what the IT field is. Along with the job outlook projected from 2008 through 2018. One of the most important things in the IT field is to keep up to date with the latest trends. There is a chart covering the annual income of some of the careers in the field. As well as a chart that covers the annual total cost of tuition and fees for some of the best online schools. Professional Language and Culture Report What is Information Technology (IT)? IT is an acronym for “Information Technology” and you pronounce it by saying the letters individually. IT is anything related to computing such as the internet, hardware, software, networking, and even the people it takes to operate and maintain the systems. Almost all large companies have their own IT department that manage the computers, servers, networks, security, and anything else that falls into their area of expertise (Techterms, 2011). Culture According to a blog, by La Salle, “Culture has been a constant worry in the Information Technology (IT) field, since it has been observed that culture can influence on the success of IT adoption and usage” (2010). More often than not the professionals in the IT field go unnoticed...
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...Professional Cultural Groups CS204-09 Brittany Mayfield Kaplan University December 2, 2014 Author Note This assignment will describe in detail a cultural group in my desired field. Abstract In this report, I will include research on cultural groups in the Management field. As well as an interview with my current Human Resources Manager. Professional Cultural Groups CS204-09 Cultural Groups1 Employees everywhere have in some sort of way adopted several characteristics from their work colleagues. For example in most professions, the individuals that are employed are all wanting to excel in their profession. Unbeknownst, they adopt similar values and behavior patterns as their peers. It’s true that work places consist of many different professions, and roles. These differences also include diverse cultural groups, such as: Historical factors, social classes, beliefs, values, attitudes, and etc. As a Sales Accounting Administrator, I am constantly working with different departments. These departments include: pricing, sales, accounting, customer service, and human resources. Although, I love the variety of my job. One day I would love to rise to other levels in my career. However, I have learned that within these different departments you work with a variety of people. These individuals are from different backgrounds, have different goals, along with many other things. For example, the pricing department is small, and the individuals that work within...
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...Professional Communication: Culture Sensitivity James Spring Grand Canyon University Nursing 502 March 13, 2011 Professional Communication: Culture Sensitivity Mexican Americans represent the fastest growing population in the United States, The Agency of Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) has identified a widening gap in health care for this patient population. I chose this cultural because we are seeing more in our hospital and I have a niece who is married to a Mexican immigrant. My niece has been married for five years and it has been very interesting to learn more about this culture. Summary of Article In the Journal of Emergency Nursing (Jones, 2008) the article Emergency Nurses’ Caring experiences with the Mexican American patient it talks about the health care disparities in the Hispanic population. This was a qualitative study to try and understand emergency nurses experiences when caring for this patient population. The Mexican Americans in this study were individuals with Mexican heritage regardless of citizenship status or duration of residency in the United States. The results were very clear; the language barrier affected all aspects of care. The nurse patient relationship was really only established by the nurse who spoke limited Spanish. The recommendation was to have translators available for these patients around the clock. The Emergency Nurses Association supports culturally competent care and are aware that failure to provide...
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...Professional Response: Culture & Society Concordia University-Portland Abstract The present paper provides a personal and well-reasoned reflection concerning the role of family, circles of trust and culture in my vocational life. It will also focus on how my ethical orientation is linked: 1) to my communal and cultural background, and, 2) how I think it is expanded by cross-cultural awareness. Societies vary in the amount they empower distinction and uniqueness versus congruity and reliance. Individualistic societies encourage confidence, choice making taking into account of individual needs, and the privilege to a private life. In collectivist societies, total dedication is relied upon in one's prompt and more distant family/tribe. The term woman's rights are regularly used to depict the prevailing social example where choice making techniques, stress the needs of the family/gather initially, and the idea of having a "private life" may not even exist. Since societies adjust and change, making suppositions about family progress is risky; families in the United States today from all societies show a mixed bag of arrangements. Apparently, there is no such thing as a "normal" family. One can nonetheless expect that families from more customary societies not acculturated in United States ways, will have a tendency to esteem, women's liberation and show family structures that are truly unique in relation to the white collar class European American family demonstrate Keywords:...
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...CULTURE AND ETHICS IN GHANAIAN PROFESSIONAL LIFE Cultural elements invariably affect the delivery of professional services in whatsoever form. Professional practices are strongly guided by appropriate code of ethics. Sound ethical decision making is based on a process that involves multiple steps some of which are taken in advance and some of which are taken at the time ethical dilemma presents itself (Carter, Bennett, Jones & Naggy, 1999). The development and the application of ethical principles and standard in professional lives are strongly influenced by cultural elements. BREIF HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVES ON WESTERN ETHICAL CODES The influence of culture on ethical professional practice could be traced back to the time of the development of some selected code of ethics. Professional codes in the West typically follow the Hippocratic tradition (Veatch, 19997) which is often acknowledged by both physicians and lay people as the foundation of medical ethics for physicians in the west. Among the Christian cultures, a new version of the Hippocratic oath called the oath According to Hippocrates insofar as a Christian may swear it (Jones, 1924), emerged for Christian physicians with some changes to reflect the culture of the Christian Kingdom. These includes removal of references to the Greek gods and goddesses, the dropping of the prohibition against surgery whilst strengthening the prohibition on abortion (Veatch, 19997). Similarly, the Percival’s medical ethics which...
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...A Report into Organisational Culture and the Professional Kitchen Name: Marie Martin Course: FT408/1F Date: 09/01/06 Lecturer: Mark Gallagher Abstract It is common knowledge that the role a head chef plays in a professional kitchen is a vital one and that the culture of a kitchen is a unique one. The common person views a kitchen as a manic, hectic place where the head chef shouts and roars in order to assert authority and get the job done. The likes of Gordon Ramsey have gone a long way to fuel this image. But just how accurate is this? Surely no one would become a chef if this was so, why put oneself through such an ordeal to cook others their dinner? This paper sets out to establish the culture of the professional kitchen, identify the role the head chef plays within this culture and establish who wants to be a chef and why? Table of Contents 1. Introduction 4 2. Culture is: 5 3. Organizational culture 5 4. The Kitchen 7 4.1. The Head Chef. 8 5. Levels of Culture 9 5.1. Artifacts 9 5.2. Espoused Values 10 5.3. Underlying Basic Assumptions 10 6. Change in the Kitchen 12 7. Conclusion 13 8. Bibliography: 14 1. Introduction The role of the head chef has changed over the years being a leader in the kitchen is no longer enough. The Head Chef is among those professions that people dream about, leading a platoon of sous chefs in a glamorous, stainless steel kitchen and presenting fabulous meals to hundreds of people...
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...Pop culture simply is the events, people, fashions, and trends that capture the public imagination. It is also used to describe current cultural trends and cultural trends of the past that have achieved enduring status. It includes the part of social life that is most actively involved in by the public. Pop culture comes from a wide collection of genres which include popular music, cyber culture, sports, entertainment, leisure, advertising, and television. But among the genres, sports and television are certainly the most influential examples of pop culture. From what the television and the media display to how the athletes' lifestyles are and how they behave in Public. Sports are played and watched across all social classes, but the masses...
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...The Effect of Organizational Culture The organizational culture is very important to every person, especially to someone that works in a professional environment. Recognizing and acknowledging a firm’s organizational culture, its benefits and weaknesses before starting employment is one of the most important necessities. This helps a person to find out if they might be a good fit for the company and if that company will satisfy their personal values and beliefs. For me, as a future accountant in the professional public firm, some of the most important characteristics are ethical values and their practices within the company. I am very interested in learning how ethical values promoted by professional accountants’ impact organizational culture, how organizational culture affects accountants’ ethical judgments and how espoused organizational cultures influence public accounting firms. To analyze and look deeper into these issues, I evaluated and studied the following articles: Daniela, Ţogoe Greti, Mateş Dorel, and Mănescu Dragotoiu Mileva Valentina. Impact of Ethical Values Promoted by Professional Accountants on the Organizational Culture. Annals of the University Of Oradea, Economic Science Series 22.1 (2013): 1280-1285. Douglas, Patricia Casey, Ronald A. Davidson, and Bill N. Schwartz. The Effect of Organizational Culture and Ethical Orientation on Accountants' Ethical Judgments. Journal of Business Ethics 34.2 (2001): 101-121. Holmes, Scott, and Stephen Marsden...
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...Culture is Key DeAndre L. Davis DeVry University SOCS-350N: Cultural Diversity in Professions Summer A/ 2015 Culture is Key America is a country that houses businesses that trade and share with countries and cultures around the world, we are consider international power houses. We see these businesses on the outside, but what’s going on in the inside? In this essay I want to bring your attention to people of the business that isn’t mention in headlines, doing trade deals and such. These employees are ran by the mangers and the professionals of the business, with so many cultures, ethnic backgrounds, and gender differences how can mangers be sensitive to everyone, is it even important? My purpose for writing this essay to inform you of the importance of mangers and business professionals to know culture, ethnic backgrounds, and gender differences in the workplace. Importance of Culture, Ethic, and Gender Differences in Business Setting Businesses thrive on people, without people there is no way of running a business that caters to people (its only population of consumers). Let us first begin with the importance of culture in the business setting. Culture is of great importance in the business setting, when business professional understand culture it aides in the reduction of prejudice in the business setting (Bell,2012). Being aware of individual cultures provides business professionals the awareness needed to act accordingly to situations that they may find taboo...
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...presents an entirely new approach to professional learning based on perspectives of the knowledge society and, in particular, an interpretation of Knorr Cetina’s work on scientific ‘epistemic cultures’. Starting with a conceptual chapter and followed by a suite of empirical studies from accountancy, education, nursing and software engineering, the book elaborates how: a) knowledge production and circulation take distinct forms in those fields; b) how the knowledge objects of practice in those fields engross and engage professionals and, in the process, people and knowledge are transformed by this engagement. By foregrounding an explicit concern for the role of knowledge in professional learning, the book goes much farther than the current fashion for describing ‘practice-based learning’. It will therefore be of considerable interest to the research, policy, practitioner and student communities involved with professional education/learning or interested in innovation and knowledge development in the professions. SensePublishers KNOW 6 Karen Jensen, Leif Chr. Lahn and Monika Nerland (Eds.) ISBN 978-94-6091-992-3 Professional Learning in the Knowledge Society Professional Learning in the Knowledge Society T H E Spine 12.421 mm K N O W L E D G E E C O N O M Y A N D E D U C A T I O N Professional Learning in the Knowledge Society Karen Jensen, Leif Chr. Lahn and Monika Nerland (Eds.) PROFESSIONAL LEARNING IN THE KNOWLEDGE SOCIETY ...
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...CORPORATE CULTURE Dual & Duel Organisation Dual organisation : 68% of firms 2 invisible caracteristics Horizontal coordination problem Duel organisation : 32% of cases One objective : coherence of the actions Verticale integration problem Strengths of cultural integration (1) Hypothesis of the corporate culture In a company coexistence of heterogeneous cultures around a common project Coroporate culture is divided in three forms : Inclusive corporate culture Entrepreneurial culture Professional corporation Strengths of cultural integration (2) Cultural duality : 3 forms Distribution between repetitive work services status and services in contact with the user of professional workers upon workers in Domination setback Status as protection or as access to social ascent Destabilization and cultural ruptures Two groups in the beginning of the XXe century One with strong values The other one identifying itself to the first one Nowadays the new work organizations change the cohesion in the company. The individualization grows in two ways. Old regulation based on a shared culture A glorious past : Companies : long and rich history Old and strong culture : values, common representations, collective memory A dominant professional community : Regulation based on ancient symbolic domination Different factors illustrate the several...
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...dying rituals so significant? HLT 324V Week 4 Discussion 2 What death and dying practices are contrary to your personal beliefs or chosen religious values? How will you support a patient’s death and dying rituals and practices, and still honor your own? HLT 324V Week 4 Case Study: Through the Eyes of the Patient and the Health Care Professional Topic: Spiritual and Cultural Emphases on Death and Dying Allied health professionals are confronted with different death and dying practices. An effective allied health professional recognizes the importance of understanding different cultural practices, and learns how to evaluate the death, dying, and spiritual beliefs and practices across the cultures. Read the two specified case histories and choose one for this assignment. Chapter 4, “Stories of Abby: An Ojibwa Journey” and Chapter 14, “Stories of Shanti: Culture and Karma,” by Gelfland, Raspa, and Sherylyn, from End-of-Life Stories: Crossing Disciplinary Boundaries (2005), available in the GCU Library: http://library.gcu.edu:2048/login?url=http://site.ebrary.com/lib/grandcanyon/Doc?id=10265487 Identify your role as a health care professional in supporting Abby or Shanti’s dying rituals, and in creating strategies for displaying respect while still providing quality care. Integrate your strategies as you develop a care plan describing how you would approach the situation and care for the patient. Review the “Care Plan” template prior to beginning. Include the following in...
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... The views of many are that an individual who is obese or overweight is that way by choice or laziness resulting in a negative bias that can prevent therapeutic treatment (Pascal & Kerpius, 2012). Viewing an individual as obese also lends to beliefs of he or she is unintelligent, less productive, but caring (Pascal & Kerpius, 2012). The views of others can have long-term effects on an individual and create low self esteem as well as issues such as binge eating and depression. In a situation in which a therapist maintains these views it can exacerbate these issues taking a therapeutic relationship and creating a harmful one (Pascal & Kerpius, 2012). The professional may not be aware of bias but without understanding obesity and its multicultural effects harm can occur. The first impression a professional has when meeting a potential client will affect the entire relationship, including the diagnosis, possible treatments, and outcomes (Pascal & Kerpius, 2012). These first impressions are not intentional for the...
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...Chiefs, and Atlanta Braves are all professional sports teams in America that use Native American culture to represent them through the means of tribe names, logos, and mascots. These teams have received a lot of media attention around the debate as to whether the representation of Native Americans is offensive or not. Controversy surrounding Native American mascots first came into the public eye during the 1960s Native American Civil Rights movement, where the use of these mascots was criticized for being insulting. However, the people who conceived these teams, knowingly or not, created an atmosphere of prejudice and discrimination growing the brands into multi-million...
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...Implementing Change through Professional Development Implementing Change through Professional Development As the instructional leader of the organization, I believe that the implementation of professional learning communities (PLCs) will be the most promising path for sustained and substantive improvement of our school. According to DuFour, DuFour, and Eaker (2008), leaders can take comfort in knowing that there is abundant research to support PLCs. The function of the instructional leader is to teach the employees what the characteristics of a learning organization are and how to achieve these characteristics within the organization. A true leader uses their power for good and gets their faculty on their side not by manipulation, but by taking the personal power route to gain full support and trust from his or her employees. Culture for organizational culture is a set of values, norms, and practices that prevail in an organization transformation-based direction of turnaround. This means enhancing the coordination between the people and to match resources with environment and capabilities. Cultural values are often embedded in people through their direct experience with family, most important, and thereafter in social groups of which they often perceived to be associated with. DuFour et al. (2008) stated that a leader could present the following findings from researchers both inside and outside education to convince those who find research persuasive. Schools should...
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