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Integrative Intercultural Communication Paper

Prepare a 1,750- to 2,100-word integrative paper drawing upon the knowledge you have acquired throughout this course. Analyze and demonstrate an effective strategy for intercultural communication within a particular setting, such as tourism, global business, education, or health care. Include the following topics and questions below as they pertain to strategies within your chosen setting: · What is the impact of cultural variation on intercultural, interpersonal relationships within the industry? · How is personal dignity impacted in this intercultural industry setting? · How might interpersonal relationships improve with the implementation of your strategy as a part of an intercultural experience? · What are a few of the setting specific roles of cultural variations in intercultural, interpersonal relationships? · How will your strategy improve interpersonal relationships within the setting and foster intercultural competence? Cite at least three peer-reviewed sources. Format your paper consistent with APA guidelines.

Organizational Communication Analysis Part II – Interpersonal and Intercultural Paper

Organizational Communication Analysis Part II – Interpersonal and Intercultural Paper Resource: The Virtual Organizations Portal Choose one of the three critical events listed below that would affect communication within your selected Virtual Organization: Leadership change such as a change in the chief executive officer or superintendent, political change, or major changes in management department head Reorganization such as a merger or takeover; change in community or industry image or stature; gaining or losing accreditation; political change; or major employment changes such as outsourcing, layoffs, expansion, and foreign labor Crisis within an industry Business: ethical violations, technological malfunction, major financial loss Schools: change in stature, ethical violations, violence, major gang or drug incident Health care: wrongful death, medication error, ethics violation Government: mismanagement of funds, ethical violations, lack of response or preparedness, conflicting parties Note. You must use your chosen critical event throughout all subsequent weekly assignments. Write a 1,400- to 1,750-word paper. Address how your selected Virtual Organizational critical event affects the following: Interpersonal communication ethics Perceptions of power Communication during conflict Intercultural and diversity conflict Communication climate Identify what communications theories apply to this organization. Explain how the application of a theoretical perspective would help the organization respond to this critical event. Describe how the implementation of effective communication strategies might help the organization overcome this negative situation and arrive at a positive outcome. Include a minimum of four academic sources. Format your paper consistent with APA guidelines.

Common Characteristics of an Organization

Choose an organization with which you are familiar. Prepare a 1,050- to 1,400-word paper that describes the culture and common characteristics of the organization you have chosen, given your current understanding of the common characteristics of organizations presented in your readings from Week One and Two. Cite at least two peer-reviewed references in addition to the text and be sure to address the following questions in your paper: • How does your selected organization exhibit the common characteristics listed below? o System (e.g., individual units, open, closed) o Rules/norms (e.g., written, unwritten, formal, informal) o Hierarchy (e.g., chain of command, supervisor, administrator, manager) o Communication networks (e.g., formal, informal) o Organizational orientation (e.g., achievement, dogmatism, authoritarianism) o Leadership approaches (e.g., social, task, balanced) o Management communication/decision-making (e.g., tell, sell, consult, join) • Which common characteristics (choose at least four) from those listed above are most influenced by communication within the organization?Choose an organization with which you are familiar. Prepare a 1,050- to 1,400-word paper that describes the culture and common characteristics of the organization you have chosen, given your current understanding of the common characteristics of organizations presented in your readings from Week One and Two. Cite at least two peer-reviewed references in addition to the text and be sure to address the following questions in your paper: • How does your selected organization exhibit the common characteristics listed below? o System (e.g., individual units, open, closed) o Rules/norms (e.g., written, unwritten, formal, informal) o Hierarchy (e.g., chain of command, supervisor, administrator, manager) o Communication networks (e.g., formal, informal) o Organizational orientation (e.g., achievement, dogmatism, authoritarianism) o Leadership approaches (e.g., social, task, balanced) o Management communication/decision-making (e.g., tell, sell, consult, join) • Which common characteristics (choose at least four) from those listed above are most influenced by communication within the organization?

Describe the specific changes in chipped stone

Describe the specific changes in chipped stone tools that characterized the evolution of technology from the Oldowan to the Acheulian, Mousterian, and Upper Paleolithic periods.

 

Compare and contrast the perspectives of the neo-evolutionists, cultural ecologists, cultural materialists, and Marxists

Compare and contrast the perspectives of the neo-evolutionists, cultural ecologists, cultural materialists, and Marxists. Are these theoretical views similar in any manner, or are they mutually exclusive and contradictory in nature? Needs to be 350 or so words and cite any sources used.

 

Compare and contrast Formal and relational analogies

Compare and contrast Formal and relational analogies. Using as an example the Out of the past artisans and traders documentary explain relational analogy

Prepare an analysis of the ethical and social responsibility issues your organization must deal with as a result of being global.

dentifya global organization with a multinational presence. Identify and research a cultural issue that affects this organization’s interactions outside the United States. Define the issue and provide an overview of how became an issue in the organization. Prepare an analysis of the ethical and social responsibility issues your organization must deal with as a result of being global. Write a 1,050- to 1,400-word paper summarizing the results of the analysis. Include the following: · Identify ethical perspectives in the global organization. · Compare these perspectives across cultures involved in the organization. · Describe a viable solution for this issue that could be acceptable by all stakeholders. Format your paper consistent with APA guidelines.

 

Cultural Ethnographic Interview and Paper

This midterm cultural ethnographic paper is a report on an organization, family or group that you picked tointerview and report the answers to the majority of the questions listed below.•o?You will be acting like a pseudo-anthropologist in the field conducting an ethnographic interview (see book for description of this process), and it is an important research effort of this course. Many students report this as an excellent opportunity to learn more about a co-worker, friend, or casual acquaintance’s culture.•o?You do not need outside resources for this paper, such as information from journals, books or the Internet.The interviewee is the expert!•o?Write a2 ½ -3 ½ page, single-spaced paper entitled,Cultural Ethnographic Research on a topic that would allow you to interview and explore in detail a family, society, organization/group or culture of your choice, and must be one different than your own. (See List Below). Choosing to interview someone from another culture will allow each of you to do some ethnographic work that will make your midterm cultural ethnographic paper more interesting and relevant and parallel work an anthropologist might do in the field. •o?Students must incorporate at least five cultural anthropological concepts/terms, issues or topics discussed.You can highliught or bold these terms so they stand out. Use your book as a guide for anthropological terms. The terms highlighted at the bottom of the page are anthropological concepts. Some examples are kinship terms, marriage rites, how lineage is traced (matrilineal, patrilineal), descriptions of rites of passage, or linguistic terminology. •o?Post or attach a docx or pdf or rtf ofyour paper on Blackboard underAssignments,Interview Paper. •Additionally, post a 5 sentence reflection underdiscussion boardabout what you learned from this experience AND respond to two other student’s reflections (see due dates). 5 points The best way to approach this assignment is: 1.?Choose a person, family, group, or organization; one that you are not a part of but interests you. 2.?Get permission to interview that person or group (please avoid interviewing a minor under 18 years old without a parent present). 3.?Prepare interview questions that would allow you to derive at any of the following information. You or theinterviewee does not have toanswer all questions. If they can go into detail about a specific ritual or tradition- focus on that! a)?Tell me who you interviewed (use a code name if protecting identity of informant), their age, gender, in what situation did you interview them (location), and why you chose them. Make sure you write comments only based on their single perspective, which is influenced by their generation and gender. Be careful not to generalize about the entire culture from only one informant’s information. b)?Introduce the culture from which your informant comes from (Where in the world it is located, what is the population like- based on their memory, not the Internet) c)?Describe wedding, & marriage practices & expectations, (Matchmaking, role of divorce, monogamy, abstinence, dowry, family obligations, live with parents until married) d)?Views on birth (showers, baptisms, ceremony for naming, circumcision, out of wedlock births, adoption, abortion) e)?Language (expectations, reading and writing, body language) f)?Gender roles & Age Expectations (jobs, children) g)?Views on Death (heaven, mourning, spirits/ghosts, burial within 24 hours, cremation, wake, celebration) h)?Describe a typical dinner experience. (Who is invited? What food is served? Whatconversation topics are discussed? What topics are avoided?) i)?Describe the main festivals and holidays or anyrituals, traditions or customs:songs, food, religious significance) j)?Religious beliefs (general or specific) k)?Taboos (Are there any? Piecings, eating certain foods, premarital sex, incest, homosexuality) l)?Political and/or Economic situation of culture m)?Growing Up (Enculturation into America possibly, roles/expectations of children in a culture) n)?Function of Music, Dancing & The Arts (Certain instruments played? Specific dances? Art style?) o)?Role of Sports in the culture (rugby, soccer, caber tossing, rowing, baseball) p)?Future (What About Their Culture’s Future?) 4.Record the answers to the above questions (either use a laptop, tape recorder or hand-written field notes) 5. Write-up a cultural ethnographic reflection (2 1/2 pages minimum) detailing who you interviewed and what were their answers in a narrative description with insightful comments from an anthropological perspective. In order to receive the highest grade, make sure to incorporate terms and ideas from your book. You can underline the terms if you want. Examples:Thefollowing families, organizations or groups arejust some examples of persons or groups that can be chosen to interview. Note: You only need to interview just one person from one of these categories.Make sure that your interviewee is from a different cultural group than yourself and not a family member. Family- Two or more people related by blood, marriage or adoption. Cultural Families may be:Samoans, Canadians, Nigerians, Norwegians, Swedish, Austrians, Kenyans, Puerto Ricans, Italians, Chinese, European Americans, Cubans, Polish, Japanese, Iranian, Korean, Vietnamese, French, Mexicans, Spanish, Native Americans, Haitians, Russians, Indonesians, Australians, Brazilians, Indians, Pakistanis, Greeks, Germans, Pacific Islanders, Turkish, Egyptians, and many, many, many more. [ Note: For this paper, you only need to interview one person from a cultural family] Organization(s)-Group of persons united for some purpose (Churches, Clubs, Political Parties) Women or Men’s Rights Organizations, Association of Retired People (AARP), Animal Rights, Soak Gakkai International Organization, Veterans of Foreign Wars, Gay Rights, Human Rights Organizations, and Mothers Against Drunk Drivers (MADD) Group(s)-An organized group(s) who generally; share a common territory, language, and who act together, for collective survival and well-being; number of persons, animals or things together. Groups can be separated by gender, age, common interests, and/or social rank. Amish, Gypsies, Stratified Societies, Girls & Boys Club, Junior Achievement, Masons, Jack & Jill, and Fraternal Order of Police

 

assimilation and enculturation and describe the primary differences

Question
1. Define assimilation and enculturation and describe the primary differences between the two.

2. Give at least one example of a subculture you were a part of at one point in your life. What made this subculture different from the culture at large? Describe some of the beliefs or practices that defined this subculture. Keep in mind the module explanation of subculture as “a cultural pattern shared by a group within a larger culture” (MindEdge, 2.05).

3. Describe potential ethical dilemmas associated with modernization as defined in the module. What are some of the benefits of modernization in your culture?

4. The working hours of the day, the chairs we sit in, and the types of food we can buy at a market or grocery store are all examples of how our biology influences our culture. Give at least two other examples of how our biology influences culture.

Stress Effects on the Excretory and Reproductive Systems

Now that you have reviewed the anatomy and physiology of reproduction, let’s continue to investigate the influence of the stress response on human reproductive function. We will begin by investigating the interactions between hormones responsible for regulating female reproductive cycles and the stress hormones. First read some background on stress and reproduction in the article, “.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2009/06/15_stress.shtml”>Stress puts double whammy on reproductive system,” By Robert Sanders, UC Berkeley News. 15 June 2009. Next read the review by Kalantaridou, N.S., et al. .trident.edu/content/enforced/42564-ANT100-NOV2014-1/stress%20and%20female%20reproduction.pdf?_&d2lSessionVal=DsAM5Vhw1RsZRQE7C5rG3HRaN&ou=42564″>Stress and the female reproductive system. Journal of Reproductive Immunology. 2004.62:61–68, and address the following questions in paragraph format: What term is used in this article to describe the regulatory axis of the reproductive system? What is the principle regulatory hormone for this axis? What effects does the HPA axis have on the female reproductive system? What two hormones are described in this article and what are the general effects of these hormones on female reproductive organs? Which female reproductive organs normally respond to CRH? What effect does this hormone have on these organs? What is the role of this hormonal signal in regulating reproduction? Use Table 2 and do a little outside research to look up any unfamiliar terms. Recall the information that you have reviewed in previous modules about unregulated cortisol and stress hormone release on the other systems of the body. What are the implications of dysregulation of CRH and glucocorticoids for human reproduction? Describe the physiological and psychological effects that these hormones can have relative to female reproduction.