Cultural Reflections in the Workplace: Importance of Diversity

ASSESSMENT TASK 4:
CULTURAL REFLECTIONS

Contents
INTRODUCTION.....................................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY.............................................................................................................................................3
My Own Culture......................................................................................................................................3
Diversity in the workplace.......................................................................................................................3
PERSONAL REFLECTION OF WORKPLACE PRACTICES..............................................................4
CONCLUSION..........................................................................................................................................4
REFERENCES..........................................................................................................................................5

INTRODUCTION
Cultural diversity is important in the workplace of an organization because it promotes
better decision-making as well as strategy development (Godfrey and et.al., 2020). Apart from
this, it also ensures that the work environment is positive as well as healthy. A range of ideas and
expertise enables the ones to learn from a more numerous series of co-workers. This is a
reflective report on my own experience of culture and diversity in the mental health work
environment and will provide the readers with a better understanding of the importance of the
cultural diversity.
MAIN BODY
My Own Culture
I belong to the British culture wherein me and my family speak English as our native
language. I believe that the background of a person significantly impacts the people who belong
to a different culture or background. This is because different people have different backgrounds
and they belong to different cultures. I have many experiences of working as part of a team for
different teams. This helped me in developing various skills such as teamwork as well as
different ways of approaching a problem (Howard and Ulferts, G.W., 2020). The Australian
culture is different from various other cultures and I believe that my culture has impacted the
Australian culture that have come together to bring about a positive change on the whole. This is
because I believe there are a lot of people belonging from the United Kingdom who either work
in Australia or have settled down in the country. The change is positive in my viewpoint because
organizations get to work with different people who belong to different cultures and have a
different approach to different situations. I believe that there are different social factors such as
age, income levels, educational levels etc. that have directly affected my culture. This is because,
for instance, the education system is very different from that of the United Kingdom.
Diversity in the workplace
I believe that diversity in the workplace is very important because it allows the
organization to conduct its operations in an efficient way as well as come up with new product
ideas. The workplace organization that was assigned to me was diverse in terms of its culture as
well as the recruitment methods that were adopted by the human resource manager. There were