Business communication is any communication use to build partnership and it protect goodwill for the future. Goodwill is valuable compare to its tangible assets such as a good name and reputation, a fair location, an interesting products and outstanding customer service can ensure earnings to a business. The effective communication is the key strategy and extremely an important part of organizational success. Insensitive messages can eliminate a company’s goodwill whether it automatically to customers, employees or even a business partner. Nowadays, people in the business community are increasingly conscious of the need to use language that identify diversity and does not allude or exclude people on the basis of gender, race, age and people with disability.
Being responsible to individual differences requires people to make a conscious effort in order to make a gender-neutral language. Nonsexist language treats both sexes neutrally. It does not emphasize any particular gender and avoid being offensive. According to the Wisconsin Madison University (1991), A Guide to Bias-Free Communications, gender include human beings in general references by replacing a nonsexist language and phrases for gender biases words. According to the Elizabeth N. (1988), Linguistic Sexism in Business Writing Textbooks, examples of word mankind are refers to all people but this word called a gender biases word because it defines people especially for a man word. There are some recommended sentences to use and substitute this gender-biases word such as human beings, people or even humanity. Another way to erase sexist language is by using a suitable gender pronoun. For instance, a nurse must complete her in-service training to update her certification. The...
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...as well as human being thinking, this is because the condition of people mentally does not define their potential. From this situation, only professional communications can be shape the public image for person with disabilities. They can create the words and image either a straightforward or positive viewed.
In conclusion, there are many of biasness in business communication that happen in daily life. Generally, bias-free language is language that does not discriminate against people on the basis of sex, physical condition, race, age, religion or any other category. It includes all readers and people, helps to sustain goodwill, friendly, and complies with the law. It is also reflect an attitude which is a style of communication that looks things from the audience’s point of view, emphasizing what the audience wants to know and respecting the audience’s intelligence.
Most societies have been patriarchal historically, and the feminist movement has only occurred relatively recently. There cannot be ideological equality while there is still a stigma to being born differently, or of the “inferior sex.” People make assumptions on others based entirely on their sex, such as females are supposed to be nurturing and weak while males are supposed to be dominant and strong. The vernacular language use implies a sexist attitude that is prevalent in society. There are several solutions to reduce the apparent sexist lexicon.
Nancy Mairs article, “Disability” (1987), explains that the world is trying to block out the fact that disability is known to be everywhere and how companies and commercial advertisers are trying to not show disabled people on their commercials so that is shows that everyone can use their product besides disabled persons. Mairs doesn 't believe this though, she believes that advertisers are scared to depict disabled people in the ordinary activities of daily life is to admit that there is something ordinary about disability itself, that it may
Historically, we have been taught that people with disabilities are different and do not belong among us, because they are incompetent, cannot contribute to society or that they are dangerous. We’re still living with the legacy of people with disabilities being segregated, made invisible, and devalued. The messages about people with disabilities need to be changed. There needs to be more integration of people with disabilities into our culture to balance out the message. Because of our history of abandonment and initialization, fear and stigma impact our choices more than they would if acceptance, community integration, and resources were a bigger part of our history.
...ge them to be more visible, which would lead to a positive attitude towards their disability, and a positive attitude felt by those around them. (Christiaan Kier, Chapter 7 powerpoint). For example, there is the Americans with Disabilities act that was passed in 1990, and that was made to change how society and employers thought of towards people with disabilities. (Jason Andrew, Rehabilitation Services). Since then, many acts and laws have been added to give power and recognition to people with disabilities, so they could integrate with society as part of that society and feel positive about their disability rather than just an outcast. Portrayal of people with disabilities is needed to inform everyone that these people have the same rights as anyone else and that they instead of thinking of them as having limitations, they should focus on what they can accomplish.
When others people they do not be as we expectations, or what we think. it is often we but in our mind that our cultural expectations are different. Because of these differences one of the most message we always listen to are” People with disabilities are different from normal people; they are limited people”. Also they put the idea that the disabilities, and normal people are treated very differently in society.”
The message must be received and interpreted the same from people of a different gender, race or ethnicity, religion, age, or disability. Communication can become difficult when there are so many expectations to meet with a diverse audience. The key to building a message that is received by everyone is to build it from the audience’s perspective. Communicating to the community regarding a business can be terrifying, because if the message is not received well then they hold the fate of the business in their hands. A businesses number one friend when dealing with a community is philanthropy and honesty. A business that is honest and is willing to give back to the community is usually accepted even if there are faults. A business is bound to have a crisis at some point or another, and being able to communicate honestly and effectively with the community should help the long term survival of the
All forms of artistic representations play a really important part of everyday life and are vital for the spreading of information to mass population. It is clear that the majority of information about disabled people is negative and affects the attitudes, assumptions and expectations of disabled people. Negative representations promote discrimination, exploitation and exclusion of disabled people from the mainstream life (Barnes, 1992). No artistic piece of work exists if there is no audience. The perception of a passive audience has been widely challenged and the Strathclyde Study (2011) shows that people do not just accept all that is presented.
The disable is not respected or treated with disparagement. The definition of disability has been associated with sin and shame, when in fact it is someone, who is impaired or limited by a physical, mental, cognitive, or developmental condition. People with disabilities use to experience ridicule, shame, disgrace, isolation, and rejection but not so much no more. Attitudes are transient and change from person to person, from group to group, and even within groups over time. Time has changed the way people with disabilities are view by the public.
Effective business communication is central to the success of an individual’s career and consequently to that of the overall business entity. It would be imaginable therefore that there is some form of correlation between effective communication skills and such success. To put this into context, University of Kent (2011) has placed Verbal Communication at the top of the ten skills that employers most commonly look for. On the same note, anything that hinders effective communication is bound to have a negative effect not only on the specific message delivery, but also on the overall success of a career. In this paper, some of the barriers to effective business communication are discussed, with a few examples of how they affect the process.
Children with disabilities are more in the public eye than years ago, although they are still treated differently. Our society treats them differently from lack of education on special needs. The society labels them and make their lives more difficult than it has to be becau...
Persons with Disabilities have their image in society. It may be positive or negative. Media plays a significant role in creating the right image of persons with disability in society. Today, world population is 7,113,968,427 billion (GeoHive 2013) and hence estimated population of person with disabilities is 711 million, if we consider that 10% of world population are persons with disabilities as estimated by World Bank (2004), Sanchez (2010) and Cumberbatch (1992). If the current population (on 29th April 2013) of India is 1,271,876,934 billion...
In this paper I would like to discuss a very powerful topic in not only the business, but in
With the rapid growth in globalization there are a number of firms who have taken their businesses abroad. Their challenge, cross cultural management and communication. An effective communication strategy begins first with understanding who the sender of the message is and who the receiver of the message is. Many companies have realized this and offer training in the different cultures to help better facilitate communication between leaders (Cross-Cultural Communication, mindtools.com). Without this basic understand between sender and receiver it can be very difficult for companies of multicultural to even begin to communicate. The second important understanding is that leaders must demand a cultural tolerance of acceptable behavior between cultures to facilitate effective communication (Cross-Cultural Communication, mindtools.com).
...eglected social issues in recent history (Barlow). People with disabilities often face societal barriers and disability evokes negative perceptions and discrimination in society. As a result of the stigma associated with disability, persons with disabilities are generally excluded from education, employment, and community life which deprives them of opportunities essential to their social development, health and well-being (Stefan). It is such barriers and discrimination that actually set people apart from society, in many cases making them a burden to the community. The ideas and concepts of equality and full participation for persons with disabilities have been developed very far on paper, but not in reality (Wallace). The government can make numerous laws against discrimination, but this does not change the way that people with disabilities are judged in society.
People with disabilities are viewed by society with a negative attitude.