Cultural Differences In The Military Culture

In my organization I have notices there are two specific cultural differences which include age differential and classification individuals are place into which includes: government civilians, military, and contractor. The military leaders are younger, while the civilians are becoming older, therefore it has causes a communication barrier because of the age. As Hackman and Johnson (2013) stated “Leader can run into serious difficulties when dealing with followers who prefer a different communication style” (p.304). As civilians, most of us understand the lifestyle of the military culture and how they communicate to one other, but some civilians doesn’t like to be treated as a battle bubby. Sometime it is difficult for other colleagues to

ignore the aggressive tones of soldiers. Most of my colleagues will address matter professionally or in the rude ways it was given. I believe that the younger generation has not learned how to separate the two. Some of my colleagues are older and doesn’t like to spoken in a forceful tone, trust me; there are some young leader who are respectable to their elders in the military.
Another, is the military culture wants to convey the code of honor, patriotism, and subordination in all that they do, which is great. But, something there isn’t any cohesion between the government civilians, military, and contractor in this Dentac organization. You can see the separation in the three groups; there has even been discusses about it amongst leaders and followers. We are considered as a support unit; therefore, most of our military soldiers are expected to work alongside the civilian and contractor employees. In most cases, they don’t all work alongside one another, because of the senseless little pecking order. For example, the junior enlisted soldier feels they shouldn’t do the work, because the civilians are there to do it. Then, civilian feels that the contractor “red head stepchildren,” need to work first before stepping-up to do anything. I feel as an organization we should use what Hackman and Johnson (2013) recommended “Modifying our attitudes is an excellent place to start” (p.317). However, from what I have discussed previous, I do believe that my organization practice and accommodate their policies to our diverse organization.