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Helps recently arrived migrants compete in the Australian job market and achieve career success - Part One. You can contact me at http://www.linkedin.com/in/ursulawalker
Transcript of Australian Workplace Culture Part One
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Australian Workplace Culture
A guide for newly arrived migrants
© Ursula Walker 2011
+Presentation Outline
Part One
Defining culture Workplace culture in Australia Communication Styles Getting a Job Interview Issues
Part Two Workplace Communication Asking Questions Social Behaviour and Fitting In
© Ursula Walker 2011
Part Three Attitudes to work, hierarchy
and leadership
Organisational Communication
Achieving success in the Australian workplace
Employer Expectations
10 Top Tips for Skilled Migrants
+Culture
Culture is the way we do things
Culture is the set of values and beliefs that we learn from childhood, that determine our way of thinking and acting
Australian culture is based on ideas such as equality, productive diversity and cultural respect © Ursula Walker 2011
+Workplace Culture
The key areas where Australian workplace culture tends to be different are:
The approach to hierarchy and leadership styles Employers’ expectations of staff Workplace communication styles
Communication Styles
Social Behaviour
Attitudes to Work, Hierarchy and Leadership
© Ursula Walker 2011
+Communication Styles
High Context e.g. China, India the information that passes between people is
subtle and must be read through the physical context of the situation, or is already internalized in the person.
Relationship based
Low Context e.g. Australian, English, German most communication is overt and made
through explicit statements rather than relationships or internalization.
Task focused
© Ursula Walker 2011
+Getting a Job
Migrants coming from high context cultures can find that their behaviour in an interview situation is often misinterpreted by recruiters.
Reluctance to make eye contact, unwillingness to contradict or question and stiff or formal body language may be interpreted as showing little enthusiasm, confidence or interest.
In low-context cultures job interviews are meant as a way of meeting and getting to know each other
© Ursula Walker 2011
+Interview Issues
Resumes
Personal Space
Eye Contact
Smiling
Contradicting Interviewer
Body Language
Asking Questions
Answers© Ursula Walker 2011
+Next time..
In the upcoming sessions we will look at: Workplace Communication Styles Social Behaviour and Fitting In Attitudes to work, hierarchy and
leadership Organisational Communication Achieving success in the Australian
workplace Employer Expectations 10 Top Tips for Skilled Migrants
© Ursula Walker 2011
