What Are Some Of The Cost Of Not Understanding Diversity
Case 3 Crossing Borders
1. What competencies are appropriate to ensure greater effectiveness of U.S. employees operating in a maquiladora or other non-U.S. organization?
The competencies appropriate to ensure greater effectiveness of U.S. employees operating in maquiladora, or other non-U.S. organizations, are as follows:
· The ability to understand the need for an environmental scan, and interpret what the environmental scan highlights, before reaching their work destination. This can help to better prepare employees entering a new culture, revealing to them what they might have to expect. This can also be said for conducting and interpreting demographic research.
· Employees should arm themselves with cultural intelligence, (they must undergo …show more content…
What are some of the costs of not understanding diversity? What could the organization have gained by approaching the plant with greater cultural understanding?
Some of the costs of not understanding diversity are as follows:
· Poor of communication between expatriates and the local workforce. This can cause misunderstandings, effecting job performance, a lack of respect from the workforce, the expatriates inability to motivate the workforce, etc. in turn, the workforce would demonstrate poor performance and productivity, effecting profits and possibly even costing the organization financially in the long run.
· The local workforce and population may become resentful towards the organization. This may cause friction between the workforce and the organization. In turn, this may also make the expatriates job harder and their morale lower, effecting negatively their motivation and performance and in turn the overall performance and profits of the organization.
By approaching the plant with greater cultural understanding, the organization might have gained the following:
· Minimal initial cultural shock of the expatriate. This would enable the expatriate to take care of business sooner and more
1. What competencies are appropriate to ensure greater effectiveness of U.S. employees operating in a maquiladora or other non-U.S. organization?
The competencies appropriate to ensure greater effectiveness of U.S. employees operating in maquiladora, or other non-U.S. organizations, are as follows:
· The ability to understand the need for an environmental scan, and interpret what the environmental scan highlights, before reaching their work destination. This can help to better prepare employees entering a new culture, revealing to them what they might have to expect. This can also be said for conducting and interpreting demographic research.
· Employees should arm themselves with cultural intelligence, (they must undergo …show more content…
What are some of the costs of not understanding diversity? What could the organization have gained by approaching the plant with greater cultural understanding?
Some of the costs of not understanding diversity are as follows:
· Poor of communication between expatriates and the local workforce. This can cause misunderstandings, effecting job performance, a lack of respect from the workforce, the expatriates inability to motivate the workforce, etc. in turn, the workforce would demonstrate poor performance and productivity, effecting profits and possibly even costing the organization financially in the long run.
· The local workforce and population may become resentful towards the organization. This may cause friction between the workforce and the organization. In turn, this may also make the expatriates job harder and their morale lower, effecting negatively their motivation and performance and in turn the overall performance and profits of the organization.
By approaching the plant with greater cultural understanding, the organization might have gained the following:
· Minimal initial cultural shock of the expatriate. This would enable the expatriate to take care of business sooner and more