Stereotypes

What is stereotypes?

There is no shortage of common cultural assumptions about social groups, ranging from “girls fail in maths” and “men are so ignorant” to “he gets a bit senile with age” or “black people failing in college.” At some point you have probably heard most of these cases. Stereotypes are, in essence, very similar to air: invisible but ever present.

Stereotypes are stereotypes placed on groups of people by virtue of race, ethnicity and sexual orientation. Such attributes appear to be oversimplifications of the groups involved, and while some people truly reflect the traits of their representations, they are not necessarily representative of all people within that community. Stereotypes are often not reliable and can be negative even if they are positive.

Impact of stereotype in business communication

Impact on business opportunity

In the modern workplace, many gender and racial stereotypes remain. As such, organizations should tailor contact of poorly informed assumptions for gender or ethnic internal audiences. Such fails to connect will lead to an inability to inspire, advise and raise awareness about resources that can impact professional development. Stereotypes also affect how reviews from those markets are obtained from the business.

Impact on business opportunity

Stereotypes may also influence the reaction of the communicators to their listeners, workers may be irritated with those they find to be hostile or stereotypically uncooperative. An employee can also address someone with positive stereotypes differently than a person with negative stereotypes. Such actions may make some administrators feel less agreeable, for example at private meetings, and then they may find it uncomfortable to delegate more challenging work to their workers.

Impact on interpersonal relationship

Business leaders will make predictions on the capabilities of employees based on the divisions they work in. Leaders may rely on assumptions in order to believe, for instance, that employees of the entry-level call center or line manufacturing workers are less well trained or knowledgeable in information than others at the organization. This can lead to a lack of contact with those groups and of in-depth information that can be used by staff to enhance their performance. Similarly, workers below can identify senior officials as detached and unselfish in worldly information.

Impact on international relationship

Most organizations train staff on the conduct of contact in both domestic and international markets. Nevertheless, if it is based on assumptions, this preparation may have negative effects. The example of companies operating as a company consultancy in Italy is used by Communicaid. While in Frence cultural standards require much looser scheduling than in the United States, not all French tolerate late start-up meetings or timely supplier meetings. As a result, businesses that educate workers to follow traditional habits risk customer attack.

My past experience

It happened when I was study in secondary school. One of my classmate – Nick, his wallet was missing after we had lunch at school. After he realized his wallet is gone, he immediately doubt one of my other classmate who is indian, and believe that he stoled his wallet. He even argued with him, there were almost a fight happend between them. But in the end, our physic teacher find his wallet which accidently dropped in the lab.

The reason he believe so confidently that the indian classmate stoled his wallet is because his phone was stoled by a man who is indian before. This create a stereotype in his mind which makes him think that if his personal belonging is lost, it is definitely stoled by indian. At last, he applogized to that classmate and he also willing to change his stereotype.