This article explores several specific issues inherent in cross-cultural social work supervision of Asian and Hispanic workers. The supervisor and supervisee may conflict around differential characteristics in the areas of cognitive orientation, motivation orientation, communication styles, value orientation and sensory orientation. The article focuses on understanding the implications of these differences and how they can enter into the supervisory relationship. It offers some suggestions for examining one's cultural sensitive supervisory style and for assisting in the development of self-awareness among Asian and Hispanic workers.
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Ryan et al. (1989) studied this question.