Your Attitude Is Showing: A Primer of Human Relations, Tenth Edition

Attitude Adjustment

What might you do to improve your attitude toward all co-workers regardless of cultural background? Here are three suggestions:

1. As a permanent employee, take the initiative to build equally good relationships with all co-workers—especially those who are new and from a culture different than your own. Go about building relationships slowly. Translated, this means you should play the role of the friendly, helpful host, but not to the extent that you might put your relationships with your regular co-workers in jeopardy.

   Shirley. Shirley is extremely friendly and outgoing. In fact, when a new employee arrives in her department she tries so hard to build a warm and friendly relationship that she makes it uncomfortable for the ...