Exploring an Ethnic or Multicultural Challenge Assignment
Overview
As professionals who are seeking graduate education to enhance leadership ability, we are conscious of our responsibility to develop awareness and skills that will assist us in the world of work. We recognize that we participate in a large, multicultural workforce that demands a cultural understanding of our co-workers. Even if we are well intentioned, the potential for miscommunication and conflict always exists.
This final project is your opportunity to demonstrate the cultural competencies that you have developed in this course. In Unit 2, you identified an area of cultural conflict for your course project and addressed your current level of cultural competence. In Unit 5, you conducted a literature review to serve as a theoretical foundation on which to base conclusions for the course project.
In this final part of the project, you will further define key elements of the issue or issues. You will then apply theories on cultural awareness you have studied to analyze the issues defined in your problem statement to make intervention recommendations.
By successfully completing this assignment, you will demonstrate your proficiency in the following course competencies and assignment criteria:
Competency 1: Analyze the influence of culture on attitudes, values, perception, human behavior, and interpersonal relations.
Examine the ethical considerations for an intervention.
Analyze how the intervention methodology might be interpreted by various stakeholders.
Competency 2: Analyze individual cultural competencies.
Analyze issues defined in a problem statement.
Competency 3: Analyze culturally and developmentally appropriate intervention strategies.
Analyze an appropriate intervention recommendation.
Competency 4: Apply theories, methods, and research in cross-cultural awareness.
Apply concepts, theories, and research on culture and ethnicity to a multicultural conflict.
Competency 5: Communicate in a manner that is scholarly, professional, and consistent with expectations for members of the human services profession.
Communicate in a professional manner, using concise, well organized, and grammatically correct writing that incorporates appropriate APA style and conventions.
Assignment Instructions
Your required readings, discussion questions, and assignments in this course have been preparing you for this final course project. Here is a roadmap that will help you organize and complete this unit.
Begin by rereading the first requirement in your Unit 2 assignment. Here is where you described a fictional or real-life, work-related conflict that was complicated by cultural differences. You were asked to discuss the cultural identity of the participants, provide a clear statement of the conflict and research question, add any relevant details leading up to the conflict, and share your rationale for the relevance of this scenario. This information needs to be clearly stated at the beginning of your final project, so the reader understands the scope of the problem and is engaged by the topic. Do not simply borrow your words verbatim from Unit 2. Instead, use economical language and synthesize ideas about the cultural problem that you are investigating.
Important: The second part of the Unit 2 assignment asked you to address your own cultural competencies. Do not include this information in your final project. Instead, use your self-assessment as a baseline when you reflect on your personal and professional growth in the Unit 10 discussions.
You may have constructed an outline for your paper when you were writing your Unit 5 literature review assignment. If so, consider any revisions you might want to make. If you have not yet made an outline, you are encouraged to do so, as it will keep you organized as you move forward.
Review your literature again. Consider what you have learned from the resources you found, and think about how you will apply it to your topic. Have you have found at least 10 current (written in the last five years) books or peer-reviewed journal articles? Weave your literature review into the various sections of your paper. Add to your references if you feel that you have a gap in the professional literature.
In this assignment you will:
Analyze issues defined in the problem statement.
Analyze an appropriate intervention recommendation.
What interventions strategies or theories are appropriate for the scenario? Analyze why they are appropriate.
Who should initiate and conduct the intervention?
What managerial skills and tools might be required?
Analyze how the intervention methodology might be interpreted by various stakeholders.
Examine the ethical considerations for an intervention.
Does the intervention ask stakeholders to adapt or change in some way? If so, are those changes ethical?
If they are not asked to adapt, what are the ethical implications of not doing so?
What personal biases or prejudices should you be aware of, as a person making the intervention recommendation?
Apply concepts, theories, and research on culture and ethnicity to a multicultural conflict.
Submit your final project into the assignment area.
Submission Requirements
Written communication: Paper should communicate professionally with writing that is clear, effective, and persuasive about ideas and positions presented in the paper. These ideas and positions must be relevant in the profession and discipline.
APA formatting: Resources and citations are formatted according to APA Manual (6th edition) style and formatting.
Length: Paper should be at least 10 pages but no more than 14 pages, including the references but excluding the title page and the table of contents.
References: Paper should include a minimum of 10 references from peer-reviewed journal articles or books that have been written in the last five years.
Format: Paper should have a title page, a table of contents, the text, and references. References are listed on a separate page.