How Race Affects The Public Safety Organization - 2271 Words

Introduction The US is a racially diverse country, and many societies do not share like that we except many different races or culture, so much so that they wish that all African American would move to Africa, etc. and it does not stop there, it can trickle into the work environment. They also do not like people from different cultures, especially if they are from a nation like Iran. Therefore, many people tend to treat what they do not understand about a certain race or culture like the enemy, and sometime it is heavily within our place of employment. It tends to be just as bad within the public safety organization, and if they are from a different culture/race it tends to create a bias type attitude and that type of behavior can†¦show more content†¦Because, when a leader has to deal with a very diverse group, their backgrounds, and belief, it can do one or two things which are: the diverse group can find common ground to create a non-biases work environment or it can hinder it by maki ng it hard to work with them, because of their biases towards other race/cultures and that can affect the organization overall goals. Therefore, if anything influences the public safety work environment in a negative way, it needs to be dealt with as soon as possible or it can destroy the organization from the inside out, so we need to insure that this never happens first and foremost. Since organizational culture can only be as â€Å"powerful when leaders can guide and control these types of behavior in the workplace every day, and be commitment make changes if need be to insure unity† (Cooper, 2001, p. 1). But nothing ever stays the same; because as races or cultures changes within the organization so do policies and something will not. For example, in the public safety organization there might be set culture that other races will not deviate from if not necessary, like certain beliefs, practices, and values, that will â€Å"govern how they will functions from the rudimentary level, and it is believed that employees will use this as a way to learn how to cope daily with internal and external issues that h ave proven to worked in the past† (Sumwalt, n.d., p. 4). So,