I do know of an experience that happen to my daughter where she was considered for a promotion within the company that she works for and was questioned about the travel that would be involved because she has small children.  This question would not have been asked of a male worker.  This shows that diversity is a continuing issue within the work place for women.  
4. Your Most Important Takeaway 
My biggest takeaway from this article is that “you come a long way baby” but we as women have a lot farther to go before there is true diversity in the workplace and where decisions are made based solely on our work experience and performance and not on our gender. 

Analyze the challenges of globalization and the solution to those challenges. 

 2. How  does the article add to your understanding of the objective? 

This article built on the objective by explaining that there is communication for a diverse workplace and communication from a diverse workplace. According to Ruth Mayhew, communication for a diverse workforce requires understanding how diverse employee populations perceive business communication and employers who improve their communication styles and increase the media they use should also be flexible to receiving communication from employees is a way to improve communication from a diverse workforce. 

3. Real-life Experience 

At a past job, we were trained on how to communicate with others who were not able to communicate easily with others and we were also trained on how to communicate with outside organizations. This was valuable to me because I think it is important to be able to communicate with all people. 

The takeaway from this article is communication in a diverse workplace is a two-way street. Whether you are communicating within your organization or if your organization is communicating with another organization.  

Analyze the challenges of globalization and the solution to those challenges. 

2. How  does the article add to your understanding of the objective? 

This article increased our understanding of the different types of challenges that can face organizations that have many different cultures employed there. The four challenges that were given as examples were direct versus indirect communication, trouble with accents and fluency, different attitudes toward hierarchy and authority, and conflicting norms for decision making. 

2. Real-life experiences 

One life experience that I have had with communication challenges in the workplace would be when I was working with a women from Mexico and did not speak much English. I do not speak any Spanish so it made talking to each other a challenge, but after a while she started to pick up English and I was slowly able to learn some phrases in Spanish. The challenge with speaking two different languages is that not everyone is willing to have to learn how to speak another language, especially in their home country. 

4. Your most important takeaway?A major takeaway is that wherever we are employed, we will more than likely be working in a multicultural workplace and we will be prepared to work and adapt to the challenges that come along with working with a variety of people from all over the world. 

This article focuses on the challenges of adding diversity to your workforce and how to continue to be successful in business. 

This article built on the objective by explaining that there are many steps that you can take as a company to be successful when having a diverse workforce. A company can only be successful if it is willing to make changes. The seven ways to better communicate in today's workforce are: people from some cultures don't trust information that comes directly from a manager; learn how the source culture best receives communications; train international employees early and often; train the non-foreign-born, too; assign mentors and take care of the spouses; practice open-door communication—carefully; in company-wide communications, avoid jargon and slang; play by the rules and stick to business.

3. Real-life Experience 

My Real-Life experience in relation to this article, unfortunately, are not successful. They did not follow any of these seven steps; we were not trained on how to work with others from a different culture. Not that we had never worked with a customer from a different culture, but we were never taught how to work with a colleague that was from a different culture. Nor, did we avoid internal jargon or slang, making it increasingly difficult for the new hires, just as much as the original employees. 

My major takeaway from reading this article is that we cannot put all the responsibility of making sure your company is prepared and trained for a diverse workforce in the hands of the upper management. This is a team effort and is never a finished job.