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Cultural Competence for Public Managers
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Cultural Competence for Public Managers

by Espiridion Borrego, Richard Greggory Johnson lll
September 2017
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
414 pages
13h 41m
English
Routledge
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Chapter 8

Cultural Competencies for Employees

What we have to do … is to find a way to celebrate our diversity and debate our differences without fracturing our communities.

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton BrainyQuote, n.d.

8.1 Introduction

Developing cultural competencies for employees is interwoven with the organizational skills required of any employee. Understanding and developing the foundation cultural competencies becomes a career currency for an employee. These are skills that are necessary at all levels. The organizational culture in the United States can be considered to be monochronic. Employees who come from polychronic backgrounds and from a social background that is not familiar with the organizational cultural ...

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ISBN: 9781439828076