conscious leader is important to professional and organizational success. Not only is diversity consciousness important in business but it is equally important in all aspects of life. Diversity consciousness consists of three components “diversity awareness, understanding of diversity, and diversity skills” (Bucher, 2015, p.38). When dealing with people from different cultures, it is important to communicate effectively. In order to do so there are skills that should be adapted. An “integral part
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development Application: Ethical and Multicultural Considerations in Assessment In counseling, many assessment errors may occur when ethical and multicultural guidelines are not taken into consideration. Counselors unfamiliar with these guidelines may threaten the validity of the assessment process, which might result in maladaptive treatment plans, ineffective interventions, and poor prognoses. Knowledge of ethical and multicultural guidelines and awareness of one's own biases are crucial to providing
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Synopsis Multicultural education has been a tool used in the United States to foster education in public schools for all cultures to enjoy in it. The article A History of Multicultural Education in the USA: Origins, Approaches, and Misconceptions by Rasit Celik that appeared in the second volume of Online Journal of New Horizons in Education of October 2012 endeavors to critically analyze the origin of the education tool, the approaches used to apply it in the schools and various misconceptions
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Multicultural Education Multicultural education has been a buzz word in the academia field since the 1960s. Throughout the years, this facet has been at the forefront of educational reform. In the beginning stages, the change needed for multicultural education consisted of minorities assimilating to American “culture”. Banks made it clear to point out that “46% of the school population by 2020 would be non-white" (Banks,2001;Neito,2000) This cultural boom is nothing that cannot be ignored and must
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Evaluating Communication Strategies HSM/210 02/02/2014 Mary Lou Bedient Evaluating Communication Strategies You are working as a human service worker at a local United Way agency that serves several multicultural clients. In addition to the multicultural aspect, the agency also serves children, women, the elderly, and the homeless. Your manager has asked you to decide the best communication approach for each of these clients. About the Clients In the human services profession it is becoming
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listening skills”(Grosse, 2002). The knowledge of cultures leads to an affective communication with a multicultural people; as in the hospitality management everyone knows that The Guest is A king, that show it all, listening to listen not to answer and argue is the half way to the solution of the conflict in communication, because the active listening can overlook misunderstanding; the increased awareness of our communication behavior and lead to a better cooperation and to efficient operation. Understanding
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such as a city you might get clients from all walks of life that you will have to serve. Having some type of multicultural competency will help you serve your client better. Being competent will allow the worker to build that rapport with the client. The client will see that the worker is genuine and sympathetic to what is going, and open up to allow uninterrupted communication. Multicultural competence is a set of skills and knowledge (the cognitive component), attitudes (the affective or emotional
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American Counseling Association (ACA) has officially approved the multicultural competencies and has put much more emphasis on these competencies. Unlike the ACA, the American Psychological Association (APA), however, has only established non-obligating instructional rules for multicultural competencies (Ridley & Kleiner, 2003). Nonetheless, a noteworthy period of progress came forth with the publication of the “Guidelines on Multicultural Education, Training, Research, Practice, and Organizational Change
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problems among the cross-cultural teams regarding their cultural background. The different ways are also suggested to cope up with the problems faced by crosscultural teams. The author had also focused on how to create effective management of multicultural teams. RESEARCH VALUE The research may be valuable for the companies who are looking for expanding the business and also for those companies who are facing the cross- cultural team issue. workplace leads to heightened tensions among the employees
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mutual trust (Colins & Arthur, 2010), and flexibility (Cadwell et. al 2008) were more effective. The study concluded that it was much more important to approach CALD clients as individuals. The authors highlighted Stuart’s (2005) views that self-awareness and skills, and building a rapport with the client compensated for any lack of cultural competence. The only difference concluded in the study would be the need to slow the process and assessment to allow time to gain relevant cultural knowledge
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