Leadership Studies 1035A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Organizational Culture, Ethnocentrism, Anti-Fat Bias
15 Mar 2019
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Ls week 11 culture, diversity and inclusion and leadership. Cultural awareness, sensitivity, competence changing role of leadership globalization. Culture the learned beliefs, values, rules, norms, symbols, and traditions that are common to a group of people. Globalization has created need for leaders to become competent in cross cultural awareness and practice. Culture = shared qualities that make them unique a way of life. Ethnocentrism: the tendency for individuals to place their own group (ethnic, racial, or cultural) at the center of their observations of others and the world. Making ourselves the center and judging others from that perspective ego. Prejudice a largely fixed attitude, belief, or emotion held by an individual about another individual or group that is based on faulty or unsubstantiated data. Often in context of race, gender, age, sexual orientation. Culture doesn"t translate miscommunication and misunderstanding (loss of shared understandings and norms through expansion) implicit ways of working don"t work anymore.
