Let's Work Together
Let's Work Together
Dealing with people at work is perhaps one of the most difficult challenges a person will ever face due to the many differences in culture, gender, and personalities. The same applies to life outside work because our society is so much integrated and diversified compared to, say 50 years ago. Neighborhoods have changed and we see the obvious cultural and gender integration, such as the opposite gender taking a line of work that once used to be strictly for the other gender (e.g., a woman auto mechanic or a male nurse). Not unless someone decides to live on an island all by himself, each morning we wake up we have to face the fact that we have to deal with different types of people, whether at work or in our social lives. The deciding factor whether we can work with them harmoniously depends on our attitudes and built-in perceptions towards their culture, gender, and social background.
The first difference I have to face at work is the gender difference. I work in a healthcare organization where the female employees outnumber …show more content…
We are all raised differently and from various eras therefore dealing with people with such differences is quite challenging. For example, there are certain people at work who are reserved and very private; on the opposite end of the spectrum there are those who are blatantly loud and obnoxious. Also, there are those that I refer to as the "middlemen" because there are days when they are detached from the world and never want to be bothered and days where it seems like they've taken multiple shots of espresso and are behaving erratically. Keeping your distance, in my observation, is the best way to avoid such conflicts with either group. This is probably a typical combination within various organizations in our society and I do belong to one but I'm not going to reveal it on this paper (I'll let you
Dealing with people at work is perhaps one of the most difficult challenges a person will ever face due to the many differences in culture, gender, and personalities. The same applies to life outside work because our society is so much integrated and diversified compared to, say 50 years ago. Neighborhoods have changed and we see the obvious cultural and gender integration, such as the opposite gender taking a line of work that once used to be strictly for the other gender (e.g., a woman auto mechanic or a male nurse). Not unless someone decides to live on an island all by himself, each morning we wake up we have to face the fact that we have to deal with different types of people, whether at work or in our social lives. The deciding factor whether we can work with them harmoniously depends on our attitudes and built-in perceptions towards their culture, gender, and social background.
The first difference I have to face at work is the gender difference. I work in a healthcare organization where the female employees outnumber …show more content…
We are all raised differently and from various eras therefore dealing with people with such differences is quite challenging. For example, there are certain people at work who are reserved and very private; on the opposite end of the spectrum there are those who are blatantly loud and obnoxious. Also, there are those that I refer to as the "middlemen" because there are days when they are detached from the world and never want to be bothered and days where it seems like they've taken multiple shots of espresso and are behaving erratically. Keeping your distance, in my observation, is the best way to avoid such conflicts with either group. This is probably a typical combination within various organizations in our society and I do belong to one but I'm not going to reveal it on this paper (I'll let you