Workplace Culture
Student Name
Grand Canyon University
MGT-325: Managing Business Communications and
Change Professor Heather Lukashin
November 12, 2022
, Workplace Culture
Employers need to step up and make sure that each of their employees will be
comfortable and happy in their workplace as well as recognize and respect the cultural
diversity in their workforce. How organizations are affected by bias, cross-cultural barriers,
and ethnocentrism and how to avoid a negative impact. Then what to look for in an inclusive
workplace and how to ensure that your workplace is culturally sensitive in their deeds and
policy, and the different challenges of communicating these policies globally as well as locally,
will be elaborated upon in this paper.
Bias, cultural barriers, and ethnocentrism have a negative consequences on a company’s
employees and hinders growth and development. Bias prevents valuable ideas from being
expressed and heard and prevents relationships from being built among employees. Reducing
bias means that an organization must make sure that all employees are given the same pay and
opportunities without discrimination based on race, gender, age, or culture with clear objectives
that are understood by everyone (Understanding and Recognizing Bias in the Workplace | YLAI
Network, 2019). Cultural barriers and ethnocentrism are created when bias is prominent because
it prevents people from seeing, understanding, and acknowledging different cultures. Creating
diverse teams that can bring different cultures together to respectively resolve conflict and other
issues through different perspectives with transparency and honesty, and can break down these
barriers (Panel®, n.d.). An inclusive workplace also requires that management involve the ideas
and suggestions from their employees about their workplace culture which can give them a sense
of importance and belonging (Hardesty, 2018). The benefits of having an inclusive workplace
are employee retention, better relationships, and enhanced performance which increases an
Student Name
Grand Canyon University
MGT-325: Managing Business Communications and
Change Professor Heather Lukashin
November 12, 2022
, Workplace Culture
Employers need to step up and make sure that each of their employees will be
comfortable and happy in their workplace as well as recognize and respect the cultural
diversity in their workforce. How organizations are affected by bias, cross-cultural barriers,
and ethnocentrism and how to avoid a negative impact. Then what to look for in an inclusive
workplace and how to ensure that your workplace is culturally sensitive in their deeds and
policy, and the different challenges of communicating these policies globally as well as locally,
will be elaborated upon in this paper.
Bias, cultural barriers, and ethnocentrism have a negative consequences on a company’s
employees and hinders growth and development. Bias prevents valuable ideas from being
expressed and heard and prevents relationships from being built among employees. Reducing
bias means that an organization must make sure that all employees are given the same pay and
opportunities without discrimination based on race, gender, age, or culture with clear objectives
that are understood by everyone (Understanding and Recognizing Bias in the Workplace | YLAI
Network, 2019). Cultural barriers and ethnocentrism are created when bias is prominent because
it prevents people from seeing, understanding, and acknowledging different cultures. Creating
diverse teams that can bring different cultures together to respectively resolve conflict and other
issues through different perspectives with transparency and honesty, and can break down these
barriers (Panel®, n.d.). An inclusive workplace also requires that management involve the ideas
and suggestions from their employees about their workplace culture which can give them a sense
of importance and belonging (Hardesty, 2018). The benefits of having an inclusive workplace
are employee retention, better relationships, and enhanced performance which increases an
