Bridgewater, M.J., & Buzzanell, P.M. (2010). Caribbean immigrants' discourses:
Cultural, moral, and personal stories about workplace communication in the United
Journal Of Business Communication, 47(3), 235-265.
doi:10.1177/0021943610369789
This report studies how Caribbean immigrants position themselves and make sense of their overall workplace communication standing. They do so through storytelling a lot of the time. They often adhere to the commonly-cited narrative of the "American Dream" but they also talk about stories that reproduce and "resist" certain specific intercultural workplace communication. They make sense of their experiences through "invocation of different discourses -- race, class, gender and immigration status."
Chrobot-Mason, D. (2012). Developing multicultural competence to improve cross-race work relationships. The Psychologist-Manager Journal, 15(4), 199-218.
doi:10.1080/10887156.2012.730440
This report talks about how the developing of multi-cultural competence training can aid and assist in helping communication between management and regular personnel alike when there are multiple races involved. The study notes that employee retention of diversity candidates has been a focus but also asserts that far less time has been spent on getting organization leaders in tune with what it truly means to make that all work properly from an operational, training and communication standpoint.
Dreachslin, J., Sprainer, E., & Jimpson, G. (2002). Communication: bridging the racial and ethnic divide...
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