Question

The main purpose of this individual assignment is to learn about Cultural Competence to increase professionalism and become more job ready in the multicultural workforce.

For this individual assignment, please do the following:

1. Complete Cultural Competence Self-Assessment from the course Reading Package.
2. Identify strongest areas of your cultural awareness, knowledge, and skills (two for each section).
3. Identify weakest areas of your cultural awareness, knowledge, and skills (one for each section).
4. List specific steps you will take toward developing your cultural competence.
5. Research and develop a list of training and professional development opportunities focused on Cultural Competency available at BCIT, Vancouver or Canada. Use your plan to select 1 or 2 of these professional development activities that will help you improve your cultural competence.
6. Write and essay (up to 500 words), save as a PDF under the following name Your Name Cultural Competence and upload by a deadline.

this is mu business course assignment

Answer 1

A local neighborhood is in the middle of a demographic transition. Its residents, who were once the majority of Europeans, are now 30% African American and 10% American. Neighborhood associations, used to working in a European cultural context, are struggling to engage with new people. The association's board of directors has published in local newspapers about the association's activities, published reports on meeting times and sent out newsletters. But its membership has not increased or diversified.

New People consider the neighborhood association to be the only organization owned and served by American Americans. The Association does not recognize or welcome new people in any submission. It made no effort to reach out to African-American and Spanish leaders and invite them to join the neighboring associations. She continued to do as she always did, not knowing that newcomers had their own forms of social organization and ways to support their members. In order for the Neighborhood Association to engage with new people, it is necessary to learn about new social organizations and leadership and how to communicate with them in an appropriate cultural way.

Every organization and every member must remember that change is not easy for people. Many of us struggle and get involved in the process of kicking and screaming - and that makes it difficult for everyone. But as we learn to understand others, we increase our chances of improving things in an increasingly multicultural world. There will be circumstances where people may be right on both sides of a question or belief, sometimes there is no one right answer to the question. It is essential to move into the change process knowing that coordination, patience and awareness must be central. This led us to start building a culture-based organization.
Culture is defined as shared traditions, beliefs, traditions, popular histories, and institutions of a group of people. Culture is shared by people of the same race, language, nationality or religion. It is a system of laws that supports who we are and influences how we present ourselves as part of groups and individuals.

We all develop in certain cultures. Our environment dictates what we learn, how we learn it, and the rules of life with others. These rules are passed down from generation to generation and are often adapted to the climate and soil. The rules are learned by the children as they develop, whether by word of mouth or simply "ohmus."

Organizations have a "culture" of policies, procedures, programs and processes, and incorporate values, beliefs, assumptions, and customs. Organizational culture to a large extent is a basic culture in terms of orientation, time, perception, and use of time. Organizational culture cannot lend itself to cultural competence, which is why developing skills comes from that. Culturally diverse organizations bring knowledge to different groups and transform them into standards, policies and practices that make things work.

Cites.

1.  https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4448916/

2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African-American_history

3. https://opentextbc.ca/introductiontosociology2ndedition/chapter/chapter-13-aging-and-the-elderly/