In today’s workforce diversity has become a key factor in the success of the workplace because of the various skills the people are brining to the workplace. When an employer wants to make the workplace a reflection or the company’s values and philosophies, the company must not only discuss how to be successful rather not discuss about the company must take action as well. For example, a company puts out a memo out telling the employees about being kind to each other and respectful to each other, then the leaders in the company walk around telling the employees how the company appreciates his or her hard work. In this paper I will discuss communications issues how to avoid issues how to address the problems when they arise the bond the diverse work force promotes within the workforce team and how to deal with problems such as discrimination, exclusion and prejudice behavior.
The communication issues I have experienced in the Army has been when a person did not correctly pass a message to myself resulting in me completing work that need to be done at a later date and the work that need to be complete immediately was postponed because of bad communication from my leader. Another communication issue was a leader who was from Mexico and his first language was Spanish had a heavy accent and it was hard for most everyone to understand the messages he would tell everyone. The leader spoke very quickly, which made understanding what he was trying to articulate was more difficult , this resulted in people not moving to the destination he told us to and the leader the punished the people who didn’t make the journey to the destination because they didn’t understand his message.
To avoid the issues of bad communication the leader to should have taken the time to write the message down exactly how the message was passed to him or her. This will alleviate the error of passing incorrect information. Another way to overcome the...