Reviews for Intercultural communication in the global workplace

The average rating for Intercultural communication in the global workplace based on 2 reviews is 4.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2015-01-23 00:00:00 Franklin Adams This book is critical reading for anyone involved in any type of standardization, classification, or data modeling work. We are moving toward a world where systems are more inter-connected than ever, and it is classifications (and standards) that form the infrastructure for these systems. Classifications are ubiquitous in the world around us and tend to implicitly shape the way we view our world. Key points that this book expands on in detail include: - Classification systems provide the mechanism for information to be shared between disparate communities of practice - across space and time. - Classification systems create the infrastructure in the world around us and because of the tendency for infrastructures to "disappear" it normally takes effort to see them (unless they break down). - Classification systems provide the mechanism for organizational memory. Through this mechanism, classification systems may be used to force the erasure of certain organizational memories - All memory is generally filtered through a classification system. - The use of boundary objects and boundary infrastructures are critical to supporting multiple viewpoints within a system. Boundary objects provide a way for individual communities of practice to form strong localized meaning of the object, while still maintaining a shared, more generalized, meaning between disparate communities of practice (i.e. plasticity). - Classifications not only shape our view of the world, they shape the way we act. "Equally, as good pragmatists, we know things perceived as real are real in their consequences. So even when people take classifications to be purely mental, or purely formal, they also mold their behavior to fit those conceptions" (Bowker, Star, p. 53). - There are always political, moral, and ethical forces that naturally shape the creation and maintenance of classification systems.

Review # 2 was written on 2018-08-03 00:00:00 Manogaran Ekambram Assigning things, people, or their actions to categories is a ubiquitous part of work in the modern, bureaucratic world. Categories in this sense arise from work and from other kinds of organized activity, including the conflicts over meaning that occur when multiple groups fight over the nature of a classification systems and its categories. The authors focus on classification of diseases for much of the book, also touching on race, work practices, and boundaries within and surrounding classification schemes. Underneath that is an exploration of the technology, bureaucracy, archives, daily and historical practices that determine classification systems and are determined by classification systems. You want access to the birth control pill in 20th century Spain? Better hope your doctor will classify you as hypotensive because prophylactics were illegal, but hypotensive medication (a side use of the pill) is a-ok. You want money to research the tropical diseases that are killing your neighbors? Sorry, Western researchers aren't interested so that's not listed as a category in the ICD, which means you don't get grant funding. Visiting apartheid South Africa as an African American woman? Hope you don't need to use the airport restroom, because there isn't one available to people in your category. It's like they took Kafka's The Trial and split the structure open to have a look inside: the spoken, the unspoken, the visible, the forgotten, everything that makes up the thousands of little rules we live by, fight against, work around, create anew. It is - no surprise - a little dense in places, but totally worth the effort. And now that the idea of borderlands is fresh in my memory, I think it's time for me to check out Gloria Anzaldua. the sciences are very good at what they do: the task of the philosopher is to keep open and explore the spaces that otherwise would be left dark and unvisited because of their very success, since new forms of knowledge might arise out of these spaces.