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TO: Professor Valerie Bradly-Holliday
PSYCH/620
From: Patricia English
Date:
December 5, 2022,
Subject:
Culture and Communication
In the workplace Culture and Communication plays a major role in our lives and this memo will
share the different impacts that communication has on culture in the workplace and being able to
understand the difference but to also understand one another we have different methods of
communication and we display it in the workplace, I being open-minded when it comes to
understanding one another.
Expression and Emotion Effective communication which can be Intercultural, or it could be intracultural of these methods
is important, especially in the workplace these two methods can become challenging at times it
can be challenging to understand other individuals because of communication and how people do
certain things in the workplace and that can be hard for others to understand, but I feel like when
it comes to communication in the workplace that is something that can be solved very quickly to
help others in working with each other.
Every kind of communication I feel can be resolved but it is up to us to make that happen, when
it comes to family and communication I think most times that’s where miscommunication comes
in because things can get taken the wrong way and when that happens it causes more problems, I
believe that it starts in the childhood stage where communication is being taught a certain way
onto adulthood will allow them to display their way of communication.
“
Despite the role of communication in understanding how families support one another
following a stressful event, the disaster research field has only recently begun systematic
investigation of how family members communicate with one another post-disaster. Among
adults, there was a correlation between PTSS and more frequent talking about the disaster
experience, but the direction of the association is unknown (Houston and Franken 2015).
Qualitative research with adults following a slow-moving environmental disaster revealed the
broader literature on verbal rumination and topic avoidance provides important insights into how
these communication processes might affect the MH of parents and adolescents following a
natural disaster. Research showed that disclosing one’s trauma through writing or talking was
associated with reduced anxiety and stress (Harvey et al. 2019; Kohler et al. 2018), and better
emotion regulation (Pagani et al. 2019). Even though there was evidence that disclosing one’s
stress or trauma is beneficial, the effects of disclosure on MH typically depend on the nature of
the disclosure and the response from others to the disclosure (Izaguirre and Cater 2018). Most
research on the benefits of disclosure has been conducted with writing experiments or in
confidential contexts (e.g., disclosing to a 1512 J Abnorm Child Psychol (2020) 48:1511–1524
counselor), but not the disclosure of one’s stress to family and friends who might have varying responses to
the disclosure (Kelly and Macready 2009). Yet, most natural disasters and other life stressors are
managed in the context of close relationships, where the stressor might be shared and discussed
repeatedly. Positive modeling can prevent the learning of fear in children (Askew et al. 2016),
but if parents show excessive fear, this may be harmful. Overall, research shows that the impact
of disclosure on MH depends upon responses to the disclosure.
”
Friendship Communication
When we think of communication and how we express it, it goes a long way just based on
certain things that we deal with from emotions and so much more Friendship communication
involves a lot of emotion which is very true most of the time when communication between
friends it seems more connected in a way because we have those deep conversations with our
friends we become more in tune with our feelings we are more expressive because as friends
there are more things that we can relate to so I would say communication between friends and
family are two different Communication methods there are certain things we express with our
friends only and there are certain things we only express with our family.
In diverse cultures, we all have our ways of communication that work for us which is normal in
many cultures we all have different values and stand for different things, normally, there are
going to be things that we do not connect with other cultures which is why we need to work with
one another to learn from each other in the workplace there should be more communication
practices and different methods for everyone to learn and work together by being open-minded
and understanding for the future.
Being able to build excellent communication culture in the company should be a top priority
because it shows individuals that we are dedicated to working together and making sure
everyone in the workplace feels comfortable and welcomed there are going to always be people
from diverse cultures working together there will be times where we might not understand one
another as well that is why I will do my best to fixing the culture communication in the
workplace to become more effective in the workplace once communication becomes more
effective in the workplace then people can feel more understood.
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Every race, ethnicity, and gender should be treated the same and they should feel welcomed in a
place of business even outside of the workplace, being able to understand someone’s viewpoint
is also important in the workplace everyone is allowed to use their voice and speak up on any
problem they may have. “We have attempted to put into practice the idea of negotiating
differences with a win-win spirit; in other words, to set aside our preconceived notions, take a
deep breath, and try and see the other side. Often, with our cultural blinders on, we are surprised
by how natural it is to impose one's perspective and to completely disregard that of others. One
thing we have discovered—and that we treasure even though it takes a great deal of energy and
openness and is something that makes us quite vulnerable to hurt feelings and bruised egos—is
that when we listen to each other and delay our natural response of disregarding a dissimilar
perspective, we are usually able to construct a new, better suited, and entirely more satisfying
response. Instead of becoming defensive, we are learning to work toward complementing each
other's viewpoint.”
References
Felix, E. D., Afifi, T. D., Horan, S. M., Meskunas, H., & Garber, A. (2020). Why Family Communication
Matters: The Role of Co-rumination and Topic Avoidance in Understanding Post-Disaster Mental Health.
Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology
, 48
(11), 1511–1524. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10802-020-00688-7
Lopez-Mulnix, E. E., & Mulnix, M. W. (2005). Communication Across Cultures: Negotiating Differences. In
Journal of Hispanic Higher Education
(Vol. 4, Issue 1, pp. 3–4).
https://doi.org/10.1177/1538192704272157
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