The act of improving someone else's situation in some way, even it it just involves listening, takes the persons own anxieties down a notch or two in importance and therefore they concentrate on the difficulties of others. Many professions where helping other is the main focus will have more than their fair share of people who use this tactic. Abstract Mrs X 35 feels concerned that she dominates conversations, that people do not find her interesting, worries that she will run out of things to say which would create an awkward silence. Self creates anxiety around certain people and certain social situations so will find a reason to cancel and not attend. Introduction In our initial meeting Mrs X came across as a very bright, intelligent and confident lady with no outward signs of any issues or worries as was very bubbly and outgoing in personality.
1.3 Explain how distress may affect the way an individual communicates. All individuals may react differently when feeling distressed. Some may become quiet, and not want to talk or make eye contact with you. Others may become angrier, and do all the talking in the conversation, and they may begin shouting. Individual’s self-esteem can be low, and their body language may be closed or negative, this can make communication difficult with an individual whom is distressed because you may not get any feed back from them, or you may not get a change to talk or be listened to to help them.
What often has been overlooked by those complaining about gender discrimination in the job market workplace are the choices made by the complainants. Workplace choices made by many of them (for occupations that either pay less or have very high unemployment rates) often perpetuate the disparity in income between them and white males. This is not necessarily bad, though it may seem so at first glance.
Personal problems and worries can lead to lack of concentration, memory loss (dementia). Poor Understanding and language differences: Different nationalities and cultural differences, understanding accents and sayings can be amusing or an ambiguity of words and meanings but again a barrier for everyone. Misinterpretation of body language could have an impact. Values and Beliefs: Everyone’s values and beliefs can create underlying barriers often without people realizing which results in different responses to how something is dealt
1, 2, Societal attitudes and beliefs can impact individuals with sensory loss in quite a negative way because people in society can be very judgmental towards people with disabilities, and put them in a group of people with below average intelligence and assume they can’t do or think the same way as other people without disabilities can. People in society can also be very prejudice and ignorant and think they are better than people with sensory loss, also thinking it gives them the right to make fun at them and making life difficult in the process. Although not all people think the same way there are many other people in society that are very open towards individuals with disabilities and sensory loss and can be very helpful and kind, this can have a positive impact on people’s lives. 1, 3, There are a range of factors that societal attitudes and beliefs impact on service provisions, discrimination is one of the biggest problem in today’s society , people with sensory loss are treated differently, and there a lot of barriers that need to be overcome, service provision is a term used to describe a wide range of activities, including the provision of assistive devices, rehabilitation services, occupational therapy and health services. Although there are a lot of places like this there is still the need to raise awareness so
Finally, sometimes having advocates or carers can be a problem if the person addressing the special needs person talks to their advocate rather than them. This can insult the patient, as they may feel undervalued or insulted. Communicating through special needs requires a lot of training in order to communicate successfully with no
A stereotype is a popular belief about specific types of individuals. The concepts of stereotype and prejudice are often confused with many other different meanings. Stereotypes are standardized and simplified conceptions of groups based on some prior assumptions. When stereotypes persist in the workplace, candidates for promotion may be overlooked, and work teams do not function properly. Stereotypes are not fact, they are just biased opinions people base on each other.
On the other hand, when feedback is not handled well, it can result to a potential source of friction and conflict. This strains the working environment, making both work and play very superficial with little or no buy-in. When feedback is handled well, many will experience the positive effects and performance is strengthened. Improving coaching to improve performance takes time. People are heterogeneous and dynamic, hence the same mix of skills may not yearn the same results at the same time.
Gender Stereotypes Gender stereotypes are simplistic generalizations about the gender attributes, differences, and roles of individuals and/or groups. Stereotypes can be positive or negative, but they rarely communicate accurate information about others. When people automatically apply gender assumptions to others regardless of evidence to the contrary, they are perpetuating gender stereotyping. Many people recognize the dangers of gender stereotyping, yet continue to make these types of generalizations. Traditionally, the female stereotypic role is to marry and have children.
Many leaders approach employee diversity as a situation to be avoided. They also use the old motto of treating people equally and it will provide equal results. Within any organizational culture, most people don’t feel the same when treated the same as everyone else because not everyone is the same. Most people would like to be categorized as their own individual. A research firm based in Indianapolis stated; “that employers spend too little time showing worker they matter, as manifested in lack of communication and lack of interest in new ideas and contributions.” Many employees feel unappreciated because their boss’ poor performance and it caused many workers to quit their jobs.