At the Customs Gate of Your Country's Busiest International Airport

question 26

Essay

At the customs gate of your country's busiest international airport, two people are arriving as landed immigrants.As an immigrant support worker, you are tasked with determining how best to allocate resources in helping different immigrants.To do that, you must first determine how successfully each person will be at acculturating.Looking at the files for the landed immigrants, you see that Grace is coming from the United States, a country that is very similar to your country.On the other hand, Cecilia is coming from Mongolia, a country that is very dissimilar to your country.Based on the concept of cultural distance, draw the expected acculturation pattern (feelings toward host culture over time) for each person, assuming that both people do acculturate.For the purpose of this question, the heterogeneity/homogeneity of the host culture is irrelevant.

Assess the role of task interdependency in exacerbating or mitigating intergroup conflict.

Understand the dynamics of cross-team workouts and their effectiveness in resolving organizational conflicts.

Identify and explain various conflict-handling styles including accommodating, avoiding, collaborating, compromising, and forcing.

Recognize appropriate circumstances for using different conflict-handling styles.