Culture is the characteristic that defines a group of people in a given place. It includes the observance of knowledge, beliefs, and attitudes. It also defines experiences, religion and relations of people making up a given society. Many organizations do overlook the cultural practices of their clients to advance their productivity. With their unopposed policies, organizations willingly abuse the cultural practices of their clients, for instance, many organizations do consider Saturday as a working day, disregarding the religious practices of their clients. In addition, some of the organizations do advocate for the consumption of tabooed meals.
The inclusion of Saturday as a working day by many organizations greatly hampers the spiritual development of some people. Majority of the workers in many organizations end up missing soul meals at the advantage of some organizations that keep them under key and lock away from spiritual centers. On the other hand, some of the people in the various societies do consider Saturday as a day for reunion with relatives for exchange of cultural aspects. In addition, most of the people do consider Saturday as a day of teaching the young and youths in the society the importance of adhering to society aspects.
Some of the religious practices are inclined to cultural observance, for instance, the Muslims do consider Friday as their holy day. Denial of granting them access to their spiritual practice surpasses their cultural practice. Looking down upon the set doctrines by the society at the excuse of inclining to policies that have been crafted by organizations contributes to emergence of differences among the strong observers of traditional cultures.
Some cultures do ordain people of the same society, practicing the same cultures values not to eat some types of meals. Such people have it rough when working in some organizations; this is because of the overall choice of meals by the organizations without the consideration of the cultural practices of their clients. For instance, eating pork is a taboo to Muslim society, hence having pork in the menu of some days of the week in organization hampers with the lifestyle of a Muslim fellow (Ylimaki, 2011). Due to lack of choice and the occurrence of long distance from alternative meals, some of the people end up abusing their cultural practices. Practice that keeps a person away from the cultural values leaves clients in ever regretting conditions.
Some societies through their cultures demarcate roles as per gender. For instance, women unlike men are prohibited by their cultures from performing male roles that includes handling of heavy objects or carrying out a lot of energy-requiring activities. Women are also prohibited by their cultures from making late night movements (Ashman and Hull, 2011). However, many organizations do treat all humans as equal regardless of gender. The involvement of women in activities that extends to the night hampers with the observance of the cultures, hence leading to cropping of differences in families. In addition, many organization policies do require the involvement of women in night shifts, a practice that greatly leads to mistrust in families. The dressing code also plays a great role in determining the role of organizations in advancing or deteriorating the cultural practices of many clients. For instance, wearing a pair of trousers and miniskirts by women is greatly considered as negligence of cultural values by many societies. However, through the set policies by various organizations, women do involve themselves in wearing miniskirts and pair of trousers as a way of securing their jobs.
The negligence of cultures at the cost of securing job opportunities contributes immensely to the straying of many people in the societies. This is because, in working on Saturdays, majority of the people that consider Saturday as a holy day will end up neglecting their spiritual practices that plays a great role in advancing cultural practice. In addition, the clients following the organizational policies that keep them a distance from their immediate relatives will end up developing differences with their loved ones (Itzen and Newman, 2003). The cropping of differences among families will facilitate the disregarding of ethical values, for instance, the children will end loosing directions in terms of paying respects to the adults.
The eating of the tabooed meals may contribute to some families disowning some individuals from societies. For instance, a Muslim involving himself or herself in eating pork may be disregarded by the immediate relatives, due to going against the cultural practices of the Muslim.
In conclusion, for the success of an organization, observance of clients’ cultural practices has to be implemented. Organizations opt to have cultural competitions hence enhancing the productivity and potentiality of their clients. The organizations also opt to change its policies at the advantage of its clients, clueyness to the set policies may result in the loss of competition among clients in the field. In addition, the clients opt to not only air out their grievances pertaining to cultural practices, but also to take part in assimilation of cultural practices of different communities.
References
Ashman, K & Hull, G. (2011). Generalist Practice with Organizations and Communities. New York: Cengage Learning.
Itzen, C & Newman, J. (2003). Gender, Culture and Organizational Change: Putting Theory Into Practice. New York: Routledge.
Ylimaki, R. (2011). Us and Cross-National Policies, Practices, and Preparation: Implications for Successful Instructional Leadership, Organizational Learning, and Culturally Responsive Practices. New York: Springer.