Accomodating
Hispanic Employees |
Tips to help you improve productivity and job satisfaction
for Hispanic employees. |
Aesthetics & Translation
|
Among many existing translations, which are "of high
quality" and which are "of poor quality"? In
other words, what are the differences between translations
which once read are said to be "good" and the ones
which are not said to be so? Is it a matter of enjoyability?
Literarl beauty? Comprehensibility? |
Beyond Salary: Communication
and Training as Retention Tools |
Annual turnover in the foodservice industry averages well
over 100%, and given that the costs associated with replacing
just one hourly worker average $2400, turnover is a serious
problem with serious financial consequences... |
Clear language /
Workplace Training in Native Language |
By delivering workplace training in the language employees
understand best, you can improve their productivity, compliance
and morale. |
English Only
Rules |
Hispanic employees say their ability to speak Spanish was
crucial when they were selling to Argentine tourists, but
they say they were reprimanded if they uttered any Spanish
to each other. |
Results of Poor Cross Cultural
Awareness |
Having a poor understanding of the influence of cross cultural
differences in areas such as management, PR, advertising and
negotiations can eventually lead to blunders that can have
damaging consequences. |
Translation Misconceptions |
Translation is occassionally taken too lightly by some.
However, translation is in fact a serious business that should
be approched sensibly in order to avoid poor results. Before
starting a project that invloves translation bear in mind
the following misconceptions regarding translation. |
English-only
Policies Can Translate into Problems |
The policies are legal when companies can make a case for
English as a business necessity. That's a tricky definition.
Just ask a casino that required its housekeeping staff to
speak only English, and wound up paying a $.5 million legal
settlement. |
A First
Look at the Literacy of America’s Adults in the 21st
Century U.S. (PDF) |
The 2003 National Assessment of Adult
Literacy (NAAL) measures the English literacy of America's
adults.The average literacy scores of adults increased among
Blacks and Asians but decreased among Hispanics. |
