Do you belong to a corporate
environment that features employees of different cultural backgrounds and
nationalities? Then we believe that their languages of communication, problem
solving approaches and values will also be different from that of yours. This
signifies that you have opted for the option of diversity
jobs for establishing your professional career successfully.
However, while pursuing a
prosperous career in this environment you should ensure that the richness of
your culture as well as that of your coworkers is not at jeopardy. To be
honest, any wrong step can wreck havoc to this distinctive organizational
culture of yours. Therefore, we have presented some golden tips on establishing
effective communication in your organization. You must follow these tips right from this Christmas so that all
your employs willingly participate in the Christmas merriment by forgetting
their differences. Check them out.
- Identify How Do the Employees Want Information
You will be overwhelmed to know
that employees representing different cultural backgrounds have varying opinion
about the source that delivers important corporate information to them. For
instance, while an employee belonging to a specific culture will have more
reliance on verbal information that he gets from the managers, another employee
from a different cultural background might find information sent to him through
the news and bulletin board of the
organization. Now, you might have planned to announce it officially that from
Christmas onwards you will have a different corporate strategy for acknowledging the positive outcome of cultural diversity
jobs. Then you have to identify
a source that will have universal appeal to all the employees.
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- Provide Proper Training Right from the Beginning
In case you are a team leader of
your concern, you will never be able to create harmonized corporate
environment if you overlook the
importance of diversity training. In
absence of proper training, your staffs will gradually develop misconceptions
and selfish approaches towards each other. They will even develop prejudiced
attitude towards all the corporate policies that the organization takes. At
times, things might become so critical that they will tend to see biasness in
the approach of the administration and the top level managers when they
celebrate international festivals like Christmas and New Year within the office
premises. Thus, your project of making
your teammates acknowledge the fruits of cultural
diversity in the workplace can only prove successful when you train the teammates
right from the beginning.
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- Supervise their Development
You should always remember that
at the end of the diversity training
what will actually count is how successful you have been in making your staffs
respect each other’s cultures and develop sharing-caring relationship with each
other. Thus, you can only affirm that
your employees will have better communication with each other this Christmas onwards if you gauge their development. Hence,
simultaneous with providing them cultural
diversity training in the workplace, you need to supervise the improvement
each of them is showing. Creating several culturally heterogeneous sub-groups,
providing universally applicable diversity
training modules and assigning a mentor for each of the groups will help in
streamlining the process.
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- Refrain from using Culturally Distinctive Languages
Since you have taken the promise
to establish effective inter-cultural communication in your culturally diverse
working environment, you have to be careful about your approach. Never use
colloquial language in the office that might appear unrecognizable for the
non-national and culturally diverse employees. In nutshell, you must abstain
yourself from using any sort of jargon or slang that makes up get wrongly interpreted by your
teammates as culturally biased. This is because such simple yet highly
significant habits can lead to glass ceiling effect and stereotyping in the
organization. As a result, your teammates will not participate with you in the
project. Eventually, you will fail in establishing any sort of amicable
communication amongst the culturally diverse employees for at least ten more
Christmases in future.
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