Overcoming Barriers

Overcoming Barriers

Each year there are many different businesses, and organizations that are being formed. Many of these industries have multiple cultures that perform a number of duties to ensure the continued success of the company. However, there sometimes may be a complication, or mis-understanding of the diversity of cultures that stands between companies reaching their full potential. These are known as a form of barriers. These barriers within a company can be described as an individual that may have some form of biases, stereotypes, prejudice, discrimination, and exclusionary behavior within themselves. This paper will outline these barriers, and develop a strategy towards success and communication issues, as well as how they can be avoided and addressed when they occur. Furthermore, this paper will show how the workplace promotes connections among a diverse workforce and a sense of team unity within the company or department, and finally, this paper will address how a company or department may handle issues of prejudice and discriminatory and exclusionary behavior.

Issues revolving the diverse in cultures tend to surface within many businesses. To not understand what is different from our daily social means of living creates barriers among one another. There are social barriers and there are personal barriers. Social barriers usually tend to deal with society, and refer to factors that are external and impede on a persons success, stereotypes, prejudice, and discrimination are forms of this barrier (UOP ebook C.3). Personal barriers deal with individual factors that consist of ignorance, and cause people to be biases and indulge in discriminatory behavior (UOP ebook C.3). When dealing with communication and success issues, one must be willing to openly understand the difference in diversity in the workplace. Communication is successful if the person receiving understands what the sender is trying to convey (www.buzzle.com). Success goes as far as an individual is willing to take it. When you let barriers interfere with accomplishing goals and moving forward, usually what you're trying to achieve will come at a stand still with negative results. This will ultimately cause an unbalance in the organization and no one will win or gat ahead.

Avoiding and addressing these barriers when they occur is a challenge. No single strategy is right for everyone, or appropriate for all situations (UOP ebook C.3). The best and most effective way to overcome these barriers is to recognize, and acknowledge them within ourselves and others (UOP ebook C.3). Once you have accepted that there is a problem coming up with solutions to solve the issue will be that much easier. One of the best possible solutions would be to listen and ask question on situations that you don't understand. Again, this is where communication plays that key role. Once you have listened to what a co-worker, or business has to say and there is still a gap