3.5 Reflection Journal: The Impacts of Stereotyping in the Workplace Environment

In this journal activity, address the following items in your response:

1. Review the information from your Module 3 Readings and Videos concerning the topic Stereotyping. Your are not required to carry out additional research for this activity. The module readings and videos will suffice, however, you must make them applicable to the Aviation Maintenance work environment.
2. Reflect upon a time where you were victim to stereotyping in a workplace environment. This situation could be one of the following: you witnessed other colleagues in a situation where stereotyping was the issue, you were the individual being stereotyped, or you were the individual stereotyping another. Express how the situation made your feel as well as how it impacted the workplace environment.
3. Considering the aviation industry, explain how important it is to refrain from stereotyping a colleague in an Aviation Maintenance work environment. Include how this factor could cause safety and human factors (MRM) issues. Furthermore, discuss how the role of the leader in a global environment sets the standards for the workplace environment.

Resources

Read the following resources to increase your understanding of cultural diversity within the aviation industry.

From the Web:

• The way we run our business – British Airways (Links to an external site.) (PDF): “Over a three-year period this programme…will help us to achieve our vision of becoming the world’s leading global premium airline” (British Airway, n.d., p. 35).

• Incorporating Cross-cultural Communication in ELT: A Pedagogical Approach (Links to an external site.) (PDF): “This paper makes a case for the need to pay attention to intercultural communication and discusses some specific approaches and strategies in the teaching of intercultural communication in the classroom” (Suneetha and Sundaravalli, n.d., Abstract section, para 1).
  • Source Website: National University of Singapore

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