Abstract
This paper examines the importance of improvements in cultural sensitivity in the child welfare system of the United States. It discusses the reasons for these requirements and how it would help to make the organization an effective entity within society. It also looks at the role of the leadership within the child welfare system in supporting and promoting this cultural sensitivity.

From the Paper
"The research supports the concept that child welfare agencies would benefit from developing culturally sensitive environments. This is evidenced through systems approaches that acknowledge that all elements within a system, or culture, should be considered as a means of understanding the system. Additionally, culturally sensitive environments can be impacted by the workers that support the organization and the leadership styles that inspire workers to meet new objectives and visions for a culturally sensitive workplace."

Tags:environment, immigration, culture

Abstract
The paper explains that cultural competence refers to being trained to work in any cross cultural therapeutic environment. The paper relates that every encounter is cross cultural because therapists and patients have differing reference groups. Cultural sensitivity and cultural competence involve the acquisition of both generic and specific cultural knowledge and skills. The paper stresses that unless the mental health psychiatric nurse takes the cultural influences on a patient into account, the goals and process for that patient will not be appropriate.

From the Paper
"Cultural competence is associated with four areas: awareness, knowledge, relationships and skills. In order to work with people from diverse cultures who have a mental health disability, the nurse must have cultural competence."

Tags:culture, competence, sensitivity

Abstract
The child welfare system is one in which there is a constant societal desire for change. This is because as time elapses it is evident that flaws exist within the system and that no answer to date has been capable of addressing these flaws sufficiently in order to meet the needs of the population that the system was intended to help. It is also apparent that throughout the history of the child welfare system the country has continued to expand in its diversity and that on a continual basis new cultures have migrated into the United States. Each culture, as its own system, has its own specific elements that impact how that system operates, as well as the lives of all people within it. Given this information it would appear to be a logical conclusion that in order for the child welfare system to become an effective entity within society it must be capable of developing a cultural sensitivity that allows for the celebration of all people. Furthermore, the leadership within the child welfare system must support this cultural sensitivity and inspire workers within this system to support this factor of the organizational mission in order for it to become an integral part of the child welfare system operation.

From the Paper
Improvements in Cultural Sensitivity and the Child Welfare System The child welfare system is one in which there is a constant societal desire for change. This is because as time elapses it is evident that flaws exist within the system and that no answer to date has been capable of addressing these flaws sufficiently in order to meet the needs of the population that the system was intended to help. It is also apparent that throughout the history of the child welfare system the country has continued to expand in its diversity and that on a continual basis new cultures have migrated into the United States. Each culture, as its own system, has its own specific elements that impact how that system

Tags:culture, diversity, business

Abstract
This paper will explore governmental, political, economic, and business aspects of Egyptian culture and compare and contrast them to the same aspects of Anglo-American culture with emphasis on how these cultural aspects relate to the character and behavior of the people.

Abstract
The paper reviews the article, "Serving Culturally Diverse Children with Serious Emotional Disturbance and Their Families", which is concerned about how cultural insensitivity harms children from diverse backgrounds. The paper explores why this issue is important - especially when it comes to educating young people - and outlines the difficult situations which can arise when teachers fail to understand the cultural impetuses which guide and shape behavior. Finally, the paper looks at what cultural sensitivity (and a lack thereof) means for professionals who must work regularly with non-European children.

From the Paper
"A recent article by Gwendolyn Cartledge, Cathy Kea, and Evette Simmons-Reed (2002), "Serving Culturally Diverse Children with Serious Emotional Disturbance and Their Families," reveals the importance of cultural sensitivity when dealing with children coming from diverse backgrounds. To wit, the United States is now a nation with a remarkably polyglot population; this trend will continue. In light of this, those involved in the field of counseling and social work (and many other occupations that deal with troubled young people) will have to develop sophisticated understandings of how culture interacts with social behavior if they are to provide unbiased interventions to children afflicted by behavioral problems. Finally, the authors seem to favor an approach which recognizes that other ways of doing things need to be recognized insofar as the needs of minority children may not be assessed properly simply because the counselor or professional dealing with them is viewing their problems through the wrong cultural lens and is not appreciative of the reality that culture guides behavior (Cartledge et al, 2002)."

Tags:sensitivity, teachers, non-European, children, minority, stereotypes

Abstract
This paper discusses a scholarly article, "Cultural Considerations in End-of-Life Care" by Polly Mazanec and Mary Kay Tyler, which touches upon the issue of cultural considerations in the nursing profession. The paper provides a rough outline of the article, re-defines it in terms of how the writer understands the practice, and illustrates the relationship between the practice of cultural sensibility and the client system of which the patient is but one part. In the end, the paper insists that cultural competence is one of the new core skills that any nursing practitioner will be expected to have as the twenty-first century proceeds along.

Outline:
Abstract
Cultural Considerations in End-of-Life Care
References

From the Paper
"While cultural sensitivity may not be the first skill nursing practitioners think of when they are asked to contemplate the abilities they will most need in order to be successful in a tough, challenging profession, there can be little question that an increasingly diversified society has made it essential that nurses know how to deal with those whose cultural background differs from their own.
"Reviewing the aforementioned article, a number of things spring to mind. First of all, Mazanec and Tyler report that a clinician cannot possibly provide effective care without a strong understanding of the different cultural backgrounds of those with whom they will come into contact. Part of achieving this greater understanding entails eschewing the "ethnocentrism" that often pervades one's world-view; it is also considered appropriate that a nurse be well-aware of the family structures, communication styles, and ways in which different cultural groups respond to illness."

Tags:sensitivity, nurses, illness, patient, culture

Abstract
The paper discusses basic cultural differences encountered in the workplace and their potential effects, such as negative attitudes, resentment and unintentional offenses. The paper looks at how to deal with cultural differences positively and shows how the fact that the modern workplace is becoming increasingly culturally diverse need not complicate personal relationships and interactions among and between coworkers.

Outline:
Introduction
Differences in Cultures
Effects of Cultural Differences in the Workplace
Dealing with Cultural Differences Positively
Conclusion

From the Paper
"Without any guidance from management, employees from the dominant of mainstream social culture may develop a negative attitude toward some of their coworkers, particularly where different cultures are under-represented in the organization. Negative attitudes can be the result of no prior exposure to specific cultural differences, especially in dress and cuisine when employees from the mainstream culture encounter foreign practices for the first time in the workplace (Moran, Harris, & Moran, 2007).
"Cultural differences also have the capacity to inspire resentment to the extent they give rise to false perceptions of preferential treatment. In that regard, lack of cultural awareness with respect to certain religious calendars and traditional practices is potentially detrimental to employee relations because of negative perceptions associated with different holidays and definitions of the Sabbath within various different cultural traditions. Similarly, lack of awareness of different social expectations within various cultures can easily result in misconstruing modesty or respect for rudeness or unfriendliness.
"Alternatively, ignorance of social boundaries and expectations in different cultures can easily result in unintentional offenses that make certain employees uncomfortable in various situations that typically arise in the workplace. This is particularly important in business negotiations between individuals from Eastern, Western, and Middle Eastern nationalities and cultural backgrounds. Gestures that are perfectly innocuous in some parts of the world and in some cultures carry distinctly negative connotations in others and vice-versa (Galin & Avraham, 2009; Hughes & Chesters, 2003)."

Tags:attitudes, sensitivity, awareness

Abstract
Cultural competence is the integration and transformation of knowledge about individuals and groups of people into specific standards, policies, practices, and attitudes used in appropriate cultural settings to increase the quality of services, thereby producing better outcomes. The author of this research proposal contends that cultural competence is becoming a necessary function and skill for all those dealing with social and health services and proposes to analyze the current perception of cultural competence on the part of screeners and emergency response social workers in the Santa Clara County system. The author also reviews current literature on the subject.

From the Paper
"The evolving concept of Cultural Competence is an area of reformation that is changing the delivery of many aspects of health and social work services. The delivery of social work services, especially in periods of client and family duress can and usually do place a screener or an emergency response social worker in a position that requires rapid response and decision making, regarding the best interest of the clients and the state. It is for this reason and, many others that those who specifically deal with situations that require rapid and appropriate response must enlist cultural competence not as a thought process or a set of ideas but almost as a second hand and integrated pattern of behavior in the system and the individual. Cultural competence is essential to the development of social workers and social work systems that are responsive and capable of dealing with the results of social and cultural discrimination, poverty, inadequate housing and even more blatant discrimination."

Tags:psychology, sociology, social, culture, society, empathy, sensitivity, multiculturalism, sociocultural, ethnic, community

Abstract
This paper first explains that Geert Hofstede's dimensions framework can be used to observe the cultural qualities of a nation, which often have a great impact on business orientation. The variations across these requirements designated by the individual national profiles, the author stresses, suggests the need for a specific strategy for each county in which a business is located. The paper concludes that, even though nations may share common economic interests, corporate personnel often are challenge by unforeseen obstacles of cultural divergence.

From the Paper
"The variations across priorities for the national profiles considered here are suggestive of the need from strategic orientation toward any given location. An increasingly international business atmosphere places the heightened demand upon corporate management to attend to the differentiated demands of various cultures. This is evident from a simple consideration of the priorities discussed here. Our research, in fact, points to the potentially dire consequence of failing to acclimate to the interaction of cultures displaying different points of the spectrum."

Tags:dimensions, orientation, priorities, china, sensitivity

Abstract
An exploration of the impact that the cultural and social backgrounds of students has upon the probability of a student experiencing success at school. The challenges that the cultural and social diversity of students poses to teaching and teachers is also explored.

From the Paper
Harris (1996) suggests that schools' institutionalized practices create educational advantages or disadvantages for students. It is predominantly students from low socio-economic backgrounds who choose or are channeled into the non-academic streams, thus limiting their chances of entry into tertiary education and ultimately professional careers. Hatton (1994) and Malin (Hatton, 1994) describe how schools can systematically disadvantage groups in society. Hatton reveals ways in which underprivileged families or those not from the middle class do not always comprehend their rights as parents in pursuing grievances. Malin states that intelligence and standardized academic achievement tests are culturally biased and she appeals for teachers' pedagogy to be more sensitive to cultural differences.

Tags:achievement, backgrounds, classroom, cultural, culture, difference, diversity, economic, learning, parents, pedagogy, schools, sensitive, social, socio, status, students, success, teachers, teaching