Communicating with a Cross-Cultural Workforce

Communicating with a
Cross-Cultural Workforce

You have been recently promoted as junior vice president of human
resources at your organization. You need to prepare your first presentation on
appropriate communication to a group of twenty newly-hired employees for their
orientation. The profile of the group is as follows:
·
There are
fifteen entry-level hires with no corporate experience, of which five have no
job experience whatsoever.
·
There are five
upper-level hires, of whom three hold higher designations than yours and whose
ages range between seventeen to fifty-five years.
·
Of these twenty,
six are Hispanic, two are Asian, two are African-American, and ten are
Caucasian.
·
Sixty percent of
the group is women.
·
There are two
disabled employees, one of whom has a hearing disability while the other uses a
wheelchair.
Task
Perform an audience analysis while planning your presentation. Ensure
that you consider issues such as arrangement of the room, content and length of
the presentation, and handouts and visual aids.
You are required to submit the following:
·
Audience
analysis
·
PowerPoint
presentation
·
Audience
handouts
·
Notes on their
observations about room, content and length of the presentation, and visual
aids you plan to use
Place your audience analysis, audience handout information, and notes in
a 5- to 7-page Microsoft Word document.
Support your responses with relevant examples.
Cite any
sources in APA format.