Problem
Reflect on your perspectives, biases, awareness, and misunderstandings that you have encountered in the workplace.
Specifically, reflect on:
A. Own social and cultural perspectives and biases and how they affect your work. :
a. Identify your social perspectives
b. Identify your cultural perspectives
c. Identify your social biases
d. Identify your cultural biases
B. Improving your awareness.:
a. Identify a way to improve your self-awareness
b. Identify a way to improve your social awareness
C. Misunderstandings and other difficulties. :
a. Identify issues that cause misunderstandings and difficulties
b. Explain the impact of social and cultural diversity in the identified issues
I. Identify one limitation in the self.
The limitation you identify here must be related to working with diverse people such as speaking your offensive thoughts out loud.
II. Identify one limitation of social awareness.
III. Identify one way to improve your self-awareness.
The improvement you identify here must be related to working with diverse people such as speaking my mind but choosing my words carefully, so I do not offend anyone.
IV. Identify one way to improve social awareness.
V. Recall two misunderstandings that you encountered in the workplace. Record them below, and for each: Explain how social diversity contributed to the misunderstanding and explain how cultural diversity contributed to the misunderstanding.
VI. Recall two difficulties that you encountered in the workplace. Record them below and for each: Explain how social diversity contributed to this difficulty and explain how cultural diversity contributed to this difficulty.
VII. Identify two other social and cultural diversity issues that could potentially cause misunderstandings and other difficulties.