Exploring Cultural Awareness, Safety, and Competence in Work Roles

This report examines the concepts of cultural awareness, cultural safety, and cultural competence and their impact on different work roles within the community service sector. It defines cultural awareness as understanding one's own and others' cultures, cultural safety as addressing safety issues in the workplace, and cultural competence as improving an organization's cultural capacity. The report details how cultural awareness fosters positive relationships and improves employee efficiency, while cultural safety ensures a positive work environment. Cultural competence enhances employee efficiency, promotes loyalty, and minimizes miscommunication. The conclusion emphasizes the combined significance of these concepts in improving company performance and employee outcomes. References include works by Inglehart, Krause, Thompson, White, and Wildavsky.

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Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
Concept of cultural awareness, cultural safety and cultural competences ad how it creates
impact upon different work roles...........................................................................................1
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................2
RFERENCES...................................................................................................................................3

INTRODUCTION
Cultural awareness, cultural safety and cultural competence plays an important role in a
diverse workplace. The report is also helps to understand the meaning of this concepts and also
describe how they impact on the different work roles across the community service sector.
Concept of cultural awareness, cultural safety and cultural competences ad how it creates impact
upon different work roles
Cultural awareness: it refers to the knowledge of understanding and experiences with
someone's own culture as well as others in order to inform the abilities so that it can navigate
their new experience (Inglehart, 2018). Developing sensitivity and understanding ethnic group
basically involves some internal changes in the terms attitudes and values too. It is also a
supplement of cultural knowledge.
Cultural safety: It refers to the ways under which safety issues are addressed in
particular workplace. Or safety culture is the attitude, beliefs, perceptions and values which are
shared by the employees in relation to create safety for an organization (Wildavsky, 2018).
Safety belongs at the top of any organization's priorities and it is also a part of organizational
culture.
Cultural competences: It refers to the improving cultural capacity of an organization or
it is a capacity to brings the entire working system into single one with different behaviours,
attitudes as well as policies (Krause, 2018). So that workers perform their work with an effective
manner by cross cultural settings to produce better results for a company. Moreover, it also adds
operational effectiveness in a working culture.
Impact upon different work roles:
Cultural awareness created positive impact upon different work roles of community
services such as when employee of a company are not feel validate then it affect on company
morale and if on the other side, it the company improve their cultural safety then employee of a
company become more happier and produce best result as per the need of a customers
(Thompson, 2018). Moreover by applying cultural awareness in work area will further contribute
to develop relationship which is based upon cultural diversity. Improve the working efficiency of
an employee that helps to produce best outcome in future.
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On the other side, Cultural safety also creates positive impact upon employees. Such that
they feel positive to work in a company as the manager have all safety precautions which has to
be available in every firm. Cultural competences improve the efficiencies of the employees who
are working in an industry and it also make people feel valued and builds loyalty that further
help to creates positive impact upon business environment such as by maximizing the production
level of a company (White and et.al., 2018). It also assist to avoid some mistakes and
miscommunication and satisfied their employees so that they will continue producing best
outcome for the welfare of a company.
CONCLUSION
By summing up above report it has been concluded that cultural awareness, safety and
competences have their own significance in working area. The combination of all will help to
lead a company in better way and further enhances the working performance of every
employees.
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RFERENCES
Books and Journals
Inglehart, R., 2018. Cultural Evolution: People's Motivations are Changing, and Reshaping the
World. Cambridge University Press.
Krause, I. B., 2018. Culture and system in family therapy. Routledge.
Thompson, M., 2018. Cultural theory. Routledge.
White, A. A. and et.al., 2018. Self-awareness and cultural identity as an effort to reduce bias in
medicine. Journal of racial and ethnic health disparities.5(1). pp.34-49.
Wildavsky, A., 2018. Cultural Analysis: Volume 1, Politics, Public Law, and Administration.
Routledge.
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