While clearly the bank did not make correct decision by opting to follow the norms of the host country, it must take proactive steps to avoid situations similar to this in the future. Diversity training is one way of doing so. Although often only used within the company, by engaging in diversity training with a specific focus on certain country customs, when employees are going to be working abroad, such employees can be better prepared for the kinds of racial, ethnic, sexual, and culture and lifestyle prejudices they may encounter. Although this may not have helped Ms. Strong, awareness can occasionally facilitate communication and avert potential conflict.
Furthermore, this can be an asset to the company. "The purpose of [diversity] training is not only to increase awareness and understanding of workplace diversity, but also to develop concrete skills among your staff that will facilitate enhanced productivity of and communications among all employees." (SHRM, 2004) It is better to have diversity training before the workplace changes and "Rescue Diversity Training," to minimize a conflicted situation is needed, as was evidenced in the case...
As a result, children and adolescents are at risk of delays and impairments in cognitive development" (Levy 2009). Such delays are far from inevitable, but they do underline the need to assure that Sarah 'keeps up' with her studies and that reasonable peer-appropriate learning goals may need to be met with the assistance of additional support in some instances. Although not directly applicable to Sarah, immunizations with live viruses, including
Throughout her novels and short stories, Jewett uses the weakness or malicious of the male characters to allow her female characters more power and therefore independence. Many scholars also believe that Jewett was also commenting on the decreased importance of the old New England male image of fisherman and provider of the household. As New England itself became industrialized, the role of the sole provider as the male failed
She doesn't need any interventions, and her newest occupation is being a freshman at a big university. I asked Sarah, "Do you feel harmonious with the world?" She answered, "Yes, I have never felt more in harmony with the planet then I do now. After living in Spain and making friends with young Spaniards, who thought it was amazing that a blind American girl would come over to Spain to
Sarah Moore Grimke Judith Neis' writes of Sarah Moore Grimke, "It is not accidental that it was a Southern woman, born in the heart of the Southern aristocratic ideal, who first traced the pattern of racial and sexual prejudice in America," (30). Grimke's remarkable life is recounted in Neis' brief biography. Grimke grew up in a wealthy slaveholding family in South Carolina. Her father, the chief justice of the Supreme Court
But when she gets back to her grandmother's house, and finds the young hunter and her grandmother waiting at the door, and questioning her, and when that "...splendid moment has come to speak of the dead hemlock tree" and the treasure it holds, she "...does not speak after all, though the old grandmother fretfully rebukes her." This man can make them "rich" with his ten-dollar reward, and they are
Exclusion Deutsch, Sarah. 1987. No separate refuge: culture, class, and gender on an Anglo-Hispanic frontier in the American Southwest, 1880-1940. New York: Oxford University Press. Race has excluded people of color and ethnic groups in the Southwest. Deutsch draws parallels with all forms of subjugation around the world. Hispanic identity in particular was viewed as a threat by white Americans. White Americans began to cling to nativism, which was a theory that
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