Human Resources Today

Human Resources is often overlooked as the psychological pulse of a corporation. Development of performance feedback and employee training programs are essential for the evolution of an organization. Performance appraisals are great as long as constructive advise and encouragement is given to the employee. Top management in upcoming and evolving companies realize the better trained and educated their employees are, the happier, more productive, and contributory they can be to the corporate culture. Coordination of team leaders and succession planing is essential for planning of the long term objectives of the organization. When selecting employees based upon personality can be very prejudicial I have found. My corporate cultures select people based upon the cliche concept. Some may consider the "right" employee as a type of profiling for the type of employee for the work environment. I feel that diversity of personalities, regardless of person-organization fit gives a diversity of perspective of how a corporation should be run. There are many very kind managers and executives in an organization that can be "two-faced" and have their own agenda in regards to hiring passive and obedient employees.
Being a non-conformist and contractor engineer for 20 years I have seen a very wide diversity of corporate culture as to the type of people hired direct in an organization. Many times prejudice in regards to race, color, and religion are illegal but still occur due to people's comfort level of emotional, intellectual, and cultural diversity.
We are in a sense taking the concept of integration from the 60's and implementing it on the national level in corporations.
Do we want a company full of sheep or wolves, obediant, subserviant employees who can't hang anything personal on the walls or customize their computers to their needs.
Today, you have to be carefull what you say, what you do, what you put on your walls of your cubicles at work. We have lost the meaning of what it means to be a true American. We express ourselves and sometimes offend someone, but they will "GET OVER IT". There are so many special interest groups in Washington D.C. our corporations and government can't seem to make any decisions for change without offending someone.
The advent of psychological in depth analysis of American is that we are insecure, we rather do nothing to offend someone, instead of people learning tolerance for diversity of ideas, since have insourced people from cultures who are emotionally and sexually immature by 100 years compared to the United States and more so in Europe.
Corporations today have to be on their guard of offending someone from a different culture or religion from another part of the world. I think they should adapt to our thinking instead of we adapting to ours, we need to think forwards and not backwards.
By implementing cross-cultural classes as to how and why Americans act the way the do and why cultures in India and China perceive us and vice-versa is essential to breakdown the cultural gap and barrier that exists between our fellow employees in an corporate environment. Education, continued education, regardless of the economic climate is essential to soften the cross-cultural barriers that exist.
Mandatory English programs in all Fast Food and Service jobs would help improve the efficiency of and communications for employees of Spanish, European, Indian, and Chinese descent. We are a large melting pot of diversity that needs bridges between each of us, thereby creating a more effective cross-cultural understanding yielding better communications.

References:
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Lowe, G. (2004). Healthy workplace strategies: Creating change and achieving results.
Kotter, J. (2005). Change Leadership. Leadership Excellence, 22(12), 3-4. Retrieved June 8, 2011, from ABI/INFORM Global. (Document ID: 951864841).