Cultural Information To Work In Canada

Your new employee is going to be moving overseas! Develop a cultural information paper that will help them understand how to make the transition. (Note: You are able to choose any country–please make sure the county of choice is logical for the position).

Description about Canada

The country that is chosen for transferring the employee from XYZ insurance company is Canada ABC insurance company. Canada is considered as one of the most famous business network which helps in promoting entrepreneurship as well as provides innovative ideas (Desmarais & Wittman, 2014). The business network of Canada also provides assistance via a network that provide service in an organized way. Canada is considered as a center that work with partners in different communities in the region that provides many access points of service.

The insurance companies of Canada provides coverage to the individuals and also to the companies if they faces some loss in future. The insurance companies of Canada provides two types of insurance to the companies or to the individuals (Valiani, 2013). They are life insurance or may be non-life insurance. Life insurance provides some particular beneficiary in case of policy holder’s death or in terms of illness. The case of non-life insurance includes all the other branches in the insurance that includes property insurance, casualty insurance or in case of car insurance. The details required for a person to work in a Canadian insurance office are detailed below in this report.

In the country of Canada, there are many languages that are spoken by the people of Canada. People living in Canada comes from many different places and has different customs and religious (Dobrowolsky, 2016). In Canada, cheese and macaroni are consumed to such height that is not consumed in any part of the world. The locals of Canada likes to ice skate on ocean in winter season. Canada is considered as one of the most colorful place in the world.

There are many free guides that shows Canadian culture, language, manners, etiquette, business practice, customs, society, as well as values to the foreigners. With respect to business, hosting or for tourism, the guide will help them to know more about their cultures, communications, as well as can establish a relationship with china.

Canada has naming convention similar to that of United States and similar to that of Britain. A child is given its first name and the second name and the last name comes from father. For an uncommon, mother’s name can also be used.

There is no specific national trait with respect to communication in this country. This is because of regionalism as well as cultural diversity. There are many basic communication styles that are maintained in a standard way across the country. The people who deals with business in Canada are basically polite, somewhat informal or can be easy going.

The communication that is done in Canada is indirect and that reflects the amalgamation from British tendencies as well as from North American culture (Tastsoglou, 2016). The Canadians disagree openly when in need and they are usually diplomacy and tact. The communication style of Canada is pragmatic and depends on the common sense. The style of communication followed in Canada is mainly between Francophone and Anglophones. Francophone are indirect compared to Anglophones. The Canadian tends to be exuberant than the Anglophones.

Local Customs of Canada to work for

The working styles and the pace differs in between the workplaces but the most important thing to live in Canada is to be clean (Boyle & Keith, 2014). The working environments in Canada are mainly relaxed when seen in terms of dress as well as formality level. There is no strictness in dress code, however shorts or jeans are not that common in the working environments. The women in Canada does not wear revealing cloth or tight fitting cloths.

The Canadians addresses other persons on the basis of their first name. But it is always preferred to call the superiors with Mr. or Mrs. As common, Ms. Is used for women whose marital status is not known.

The Canadians follows Quebec culture that comes to them from their hierarchy and greet their elders or any strangers with a formal vous. There are many workplaces in Canada that has flexibility degree related to the working hours or related to punctuality (Valiani, 2013). The Canadians mainly works very diligently and chitchat in office is not at all entertained.  It is undiligent that the employees of Canada wastes time by gossiping with others.  The clients who are serving very well are given the most priority. The officials of Canada expects overtime from the employees especially from those who ate in the management positions (Hall et al., 2013). Late comings are not received but relaxation of five to ten minutes is given to the employees. This totally depends on the workplace where the employee is working and late by ten to five minutes is usually accepted.

The recruitment companies are mostly valuable source for the job opportunities in the field of job. It is very important to understand all processes for the company so that the officials can manage the expectation of the employee and also work with recruiter who can value the experience of the worker (Desmarais & Wittman, 2014). It is not that all the companies give proper value for the work that is given to them

The list of things that are needed before going to work in Canada are listed below:

• The first thing that is needed is a visa or the permission to go for work.
• The second thing required is to board a flight to Canada. The employee should have a travel insurance while travelling to Canada.
• The employee should make sure that the passport should be valid and is up to date.
• There must be bank statements which serves them as a funds proof. It might take a week or two to arrange the bank statements (Lee & Johnstone, 2013). This mainly depends on the bank where the employee has account.
• The employee should have a resume in the Resume format according to Canadian section. The resume should be done before travelling to Canada.
• Before reaching Canada, the employee should arrange a place for accommodation for at least a night or a two. They should know about the accommodation in Canada.
• There is a need of accommodation reference that is to be taken from the previous landlords.
• Reference from the company where the employee is moving from (Islam, 2013). The employees should have the reference letter.
• There is also needed for having a home license and there should be authority of home licensing where there is need of driving license stating about how long the employee has been driving.
• There are tax forms that are related to termination from the employment (Phan et al., 2015). This is useful if the employee has overpaid the tax in the home country and there is also a need to claim the tax back.
• If the employees wants to take their pet with them in Canada, it is important to inform the animals that comes to Canada (Massey & Brown, 2017). There is a different guideline to take pet their pet with them.
• The contract from the mobile phone provider should also be kept in mind as there are some contracts that can have a cancellation period.

All the cities and most of the towns in Canada has a system of public transportation with one or more way to travel. There are busses, trains, subways, streetcars or light rails trains that are available in Canada. If the employees use public transportation, the bus is the most common way in urban Canada. There are also other way of public transports. For availing public transport, the traveler needs to buy a ticket for transit pass (Papadopoulos, 2017). The transit pass helps in unlimited public transportation for some period of time. Those are actually cheap way of buying tickets if the traveler wants to use public transportation.

The working standard hours for an employee in Canada is eight hours a day within period of 24 consecutive hours and 40 hours a week (Hennebry, McLaughlin & Preibisch, 2016). The federal way of regulating the employees are mainly entitled to one entire day for resting in each week which generally comes on a Sunday. In a particular week, if there is more than one holiday, the working hours is reduced to eight hours according to the standard time for each holiday.

There is also an overtime paying system in Canada. As a overtime pay, there is 1.5 times of the regular wage is paid to the employees for the hours they work for (Hawthorne, 2016). Some of the things are expected from the employees that states managers as well as professionals works for the overtime. He is expected to work for maximum of 48 hours a week. This can exceed with exceptional circumstances that includes permits, or for emergency work or any plan under the notified work schedule.

The law governs in Canada has paid leaves annually on a condition that the employee comes under federal jurisdiction. All other provinces guarantee a maximum of two week vacation that is paid.

References

Boyle, P., & Keith, H. (2014). Exploring contemporary migration. Routledge.

Desmarais, A. A., & Wittman, H. (2014). Farmers, foodies and First Nations: getting to food sovereignty in Canada. Journal of Peasant Studies, 41(6), 1153-1173.

Dobrowolsky, A. (2016). Women, migration and citizenship: making local, national and transnational connections. Routledge.

Hall, L. M., Peterson, J., Price, S., Andrews, G., Lalonde, M., Harris, A., & MacDonald-Rencz, S. (2013). I was never recruited: Challenges in cross-Canada nurse mobility. Nursing Leadership, 26(Special Issue).

Hawthorne, L. (2016). Labour market outcomes for migrant professionals: Canada and Australia compared.

Hennebry, J., McLaughlin, J., & Preibisch, K. (2016). Out of the loop:(in) access to health care for migrant workers in Canada. Journal of International Migration and Integration, 17(2), 521-538.

Islam, M. K. (2013). The Age of Migration: International Population Movements in the Modern World. Canadian Studies in Population, 40(1-2), 105-106.

Lee, E., & Johnstone, M. (2013). Global inequities: A gender-based analysis of the Live-in Caregiver Program and the Kirogi Phenomenon in Canada. Affilia, 28(4), 401-414.

Massey, D. S., & Brown, A. E. (2017). New migration stream between Mexico and Canada. Migraciones internacionales, 6(20), 199-144.

Papadopoulos, A. (2017). Migrating qualifications: the ethics of recognition. The British Journal of Social Work, 47(1), 219-237.

Phan, M. B., Banerjee, R., Deacon, L., & Taraky, H. (2015). Family dynamics and the integration of professional immigrants in Canada. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 41(13), 2061-2080.

Tastsoglou, E. (2016). Gender, migration and citizenship: Immigrant women and the politics of belonging in the Canadian Maritimes. In Women, migration and citizenship (pp. 215-244). Routledge.

Valiani, S. (2013). The shifting landscape of contemporary Canadian immigration policy: The rise of temporary migration and employer-driven immigration. Producing and negociating non-citizenship: Precarious legal status in Canada, 55-70.