{"id":592,"date":"2018-06-14T09:31:48","date_gmt":"2018-06-14T13:31:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/jepsoninternship\/?p=592"},"modified":"2018-06-21T06:47:35","modified_gmt":"2018-06-21T10:47:35","slug":"organizational-culture-the-spanish-work-environment-week-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/jepsoninternship\/2018\/06\/14\/organizational-culture-the-spanish-work-environment-week-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Organizational Culture: Week 1 (Working Life in Spain)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">My first week interning for the communications and fundraising department of CESAL has been a whirlwind. I worked very long hours for the first three days as we prepared for the 30th anniversary of the company. The day of the event, I worked 12 hours straight. With the anniversary passed, I am still learning what the average work day is like at CESAL, however, starting my internship in the midst of one of their biggest events shed light on the organizational culture of the company.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The primary differences that I am noticing come from a cultural discrepancy between the work experience I have in the US how work is done here in Spain. Primarily, the biggest difference for me is the language. I am still facing language barriers, as no one in the office speaks English, which makes the disorder feel even more overwhelming. However, I can already feel my Spanish improving and I am sure this barrier will soon dissipate. Aside from language differences, and the fact that CESAL is a non profit organization, the Spanish work environment is much more casual than the US. For example, work starts at 10 but most people don\u2019t show up until 11 and there is no distinct closing time. Sometimes we are in the office until 1 am trying to beat a deadline. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">While the disorganization can seem less efficient than the US, I think there are pro\u2019s and con\u2019s to both because the casual environment can be more conducive to stress-free creativity. On the other hand, pulling all nighters to prepare for an event seems unnecessary. It\u2019s probably important to have a balance. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My first week interning for the communications and fundraising department of CESAL has been a whirlwind. I worked very long<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4002,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_layout":"default_layout","footnotes":""},"categories":[76607],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-592","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-organizational-culture"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/jepsoninternship\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/592","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/jepsoninternship\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/jepsoninternship\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/jepsoninternship\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4002"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/jepsoninternship\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=592"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/jepsoninternship\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/592\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/jepsoninternship\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/jepsoninternship\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/jepsoninternship\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}