predisposition
(noun)
A intrinsic personal characteristic or susceptibility.
(noun)
An intrinsic personal characteristic or susceptibility.
Examples of predisposition in the following topics:
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Gender and Diversity
- In any communicative setting, whether you are speaking or writing or listening or reading, keep in mind the possible interpretations of individuals whose perspectives and predispositions may differ from yours.
- People should work to understand relevant languages, regions, and cultural predispositions to avoid communicative misinterpretations.
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Building a Diverse Workforce
- Attracting a diverse workforce requires a corporate structure supportive of varying backgrounds and predispositions, as well as the internal resources and knowledge necessary to effectively identify with a variety of cultures.
- Following the process involved in identifying talent, the managers and human resource representatives are then tasked with training various new hires from a number of different backgrounds and cultural predispositions.
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The Impact of Culture on Business Operations
- Observing the cultural tendencies of an organization and finding ways to accommodate them, and their interaction with other cultural predispositions, requires experience, motivation and self-awareness (of one's own cultural predispositions).
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Cognitive Biases as a Barrier to Decision Making
- As such, an individual's predispositions can either be an obstacle or an enabler to the decision-making process.
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How Emotion and Mood Influence Behavior
- Workers must try to identify objectively when an emotional predisposition is influencing their behavior and judgement and ensure that the repercussions of the emotion are either positive or neutralized.
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Considering Cultural and Interpersonal Differences
- Intercultural exchange drives both manager and employee to think further about what predispositions each holds and how best to maximize the positives and minimize the negatives.
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Cultural Intelligence
- Understanding cultural predispositions in this regard assists in goal setting and understanding projected timelines.
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Barriers to Organizational Diversity
- Avoiding miscommunication within teams and work groups can be a substantial challenge when there is a high variance in employee background, as differing predispositions and cultures often result in different forms of expression.
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Challenges to Achieving Organizational Diversity
- Managers must understand the customs and cultural predispositions of their subordinates and carefully ensure they do not violate crucial cultural rules.
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Defining Culture
- The ability to understand the cultural predispositions of those around us is important as the world continues to be come more interdependent and intertwined.