Cultural Capabilities in the Workplace

Running head: CULTURAL CAPABILITIES IN THE WORKPLACE
CULTURAL CAPABILITIES IN THE WORKPLACE
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CULTURAL CAPABILITIES IN THE WORKPLACE
Executive summary
The chief purpose of the report was to analyze a chosen video clip and find whether it
demonstrated a culturally safe or unsafe space. The report further aimed to provide
recommendations to make the setting culturally safe. The video chosen for the analysis was
Episode 5, Season 10 of the popular American show Seinfeld aired on December 9, 1993. The
report first explained the terms like cultural capability and safe spaces and then summarized the
video clip to present certain observations. Then, the report analyzed the social setting depicted in
the video with help of the observations. It was found that the social setting was an unsafe space
for the Native American character, Winona because she was made to feel different by the lead
character, Jerry Seinfeld. The report concluded with some recommendations to improve the
social setting and make it safer in terms of cultural inclusion.

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Table of Contents
1. Introduction..................................................................................................................................3
1.1 Background............................................................................................................................3
1.2 Aim........................................................................................................................................3
1.3 Scope......................................................................................................................................3
2. Summary and observations..........................................................................................................3
2.1 Summary of the video clip.....................................................................................................3
2.2 Observations..........................................................................................................................4
3. Analysis.......................................................................................................................................5
3.1 Cultural safety........................................................................................................................5
3.1.1 Cultural capabilities........................................................................................................6
3.1.2 Cultural awareness..........................................................................................................6
3.1.3 Cultural intelligence........................................................................................................6
4. Recommendations........................................................................................................................6
5. Summary and conclusion.............................................................................................................7