CrossCultural Management Competencies - Individual Report

Multicultural
teamwork

Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................3
A study directly coming from intercultural team experience......................................................3
Workplace in 21st Century discussed in the Article...................................................................3
Teamwork paradoxes in the article.............................................................................................4
Multi cultural management in article..........................................................................................5
Challenges faced due to diverse employees................................................................................6
Solution of these problems..........................................................................................................7
Opportunities of intercultural working teams.............................................................................8
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................9
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................10
Books and Journals...................................................................................................................10

INTRODUCTION
Multi culture team comprises of members that are from different countries and culture. All
the people are from different languages as they belong from different background. Globalisation
is a word that is used to describe the independence that is given to world economy. Here in the
people are given opportunity to trade Multi border. All the barriers of trade are removed so that a
business organisation can in its operation round the globe. It is increase the number of
opportunities that were available in the market (Romani, Barmeyer, Primecz & Pilhofer, (2018)).
This has given rise to diversity of employees seen in organisations that work at multinational
level. It is seen that people from different cultures, background as well as religion come at a
single place to work together. It is the responsibility of company to manage the diversity of
people and provide them good working environment where there are able to achieve their goals
and objectives. The employees play a major role in a business organisation so they must be given
proper multicultural management in order to keep them satisfied from their job. This report is
based on article “Exploring teamwork paradoxes challenging 21st-century Multi cultural conflict
management in a multicultural organizational context”
MAIN BODY
Article: paradoxes and conflicts in intercultural teams
A study directly coming from intercultural team experience
The article discusses the teamwork experience in multinational organisations. The team
members were asked several questions related to cultural differences in team. The use of
qualitative thematic
data analysis provides insights related to cross cultural conflicts so that multi cultural
management can be achieved. The study is based of multi-cultural paradoxes in context to South
Africa. In the article, It is seen that 8 multicultural teamwork paradoxes were confirmed by 107
respondents that were surveyed. It is analysed that people face problem when they give one
project in group with different cultural employees.
Workplace in 21st Century discussed in the Article
All the business organisations that are working at global level are facing the issue of multi
culture teamwork. It is important to understand that there is key role of employees in an
organisation. If they have come from different background it is up to the management of