Culture is ubiquitous. Culture can reflect a specific race, a country, a town, a neighborhood, or even a family. The same holds true for a workplace. Organizations have culture and different parts of that organization may have a more unique culture than others. An effective leader is one who can reflect on both organizational history and organizational culture and learn to meld them together. Internal group culture (within a group) can vary from external group culture. In other words, what might be acceptable (i.e., words, phrases, gestures) within a group can be very foreignor even culturally insensitiveif witnessed by someone external to that culture. Cultural intelligence requires cognitive, physical, and emotional/motivational understanding for leaders. Head/body/heart working together form the constructs of effective cultural intelligence (Earley & Mosakowiski, 2004). This Harvard Business Review article opens with a visual image of a global banks brand icon. The banks picture story has been created to illustrate culture and to visually articulate a message that the bank understands and appreciates cultural differences. Picture the image of a grasshopper. The advertising slogan reads: USAPest. ChinaPet. Northern ThailandAppetizer. ASSIGNMENT: Orginial/with reference/cited/500words A description of the social construction of reality through the lens of values, beliefs, and assumptions. Does a multicultural workforce need to conform fully to the same construction of reality? Provide examples to illustrate your position.

Culture is ubiquitous. Culture can reflect a specific race, a country, a town, a neighborhood, or even a family. The same holds true for a workplace. Organizations have culture and different parts of that organization may have a more unique culture than others. An effective leader is one who can reflect on both organizational history and organizational culture and learn to meld them together. Internal group culture (within a group) can vary from external group culture. In other words, what might be acceptable (i.e., words, phrases, gestures) within a group can be very foreignor even culturally insensitiveif witnessed by someone external to that culture. Cultural intelligence requires cognitive, physical, and emotional/motivational understanding for leaders. Head/body/heart working together form the constructs of effective cultural intelligence (Earley & Mosakowiski, 2004). This Harvard Business Review article opens with a visual image of a global banks brand icon. The banks picture story has been created to illustrate culture and to visually articulate a message that the bank understands and appreciates cultural differences. Picture the image of a grasshopper. The advertising slogan reads: USAPest. ChinaPet. Northern ThailandAppetizer. ASSIGNMENT: Orginial/with reference/cited/500words A description of the social construction of reality through the lens of values, beliefs, and assumptions. Does a multicultural workforce need to conform fully to the same construction of reality? Provide examples to illustrate your position.