Managing Diverse and Inclusive Teams: Insights from Interviews with Leaders

People and Leadership
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Abstract
The paper is based on the leadership and the performance of the team members in the various
working field. For this assignment the interview of five different people is being considered to
understand regarding the management of diverse cultural team in the organization. The people
those who are considered for the conversation are from construction field, telecommunications
field, grocery store leader, mechanical engineer and from the finance sector. The entire
conversation provide view on the benefits and the challenges that is faced by the team leaders for
working in the multi-cultural team. The discussion on the way for managing the team member
are also provided in the paper. It can be seen that the paper consist of the conversation of the
leaders and their views are incorporated in the suitable paragraph format for understanding the
way to manage diverse and inclusive team within the organization.
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Table of Contents
Step 1 – Interview........................................................................................................................................3
Construction............................................................................................................................................3
Telecommunication.................................................................................................................................3
Finance....................................................................................................................................................4
Grocery store leader................................................................................................................................4
Mechanical Engineer...............................................................................................................................5
Step 2 – Essay.............................................................................................................................................6
Introduction.............................................................................................................................................6
Main Context...........................................................................................................................................6
Conclusion...............................................................................................................................................9
References.................................................................................................................................................10
Appendix...................................................................................................................................................12
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Step 1 – Interview
Construction
Interviewer: What kind of benefit you found when working with people from different cultures?
People: Working with the diverse cultural people in the organization is quite an experiencing
task and the most effective benefit is that it helps to increase the productivity of the firm. This is
because the multicultural team brings out various talent within the organization to maintain
suitable work.
Interviewer: What are the challenges that you faced in the multi-cultural team?
People: Like benefits, working with the multicultural people also have some challenges. The
primary challenges that are faced in the working function of construction where various projects
took place are the linguistic challenge.
Interviewer: How would you address the issue in the team?
People: a Linguistic challenge is quite effective for the project management and it is essential to
rectify for better performance level. To deal with this issue the first step is to have people within
the organization who are familiar with the locality and the local language.
Interviewer: How do you manage and lead the team member of the multi-cultural team?
People: Managing the multicultural team is quite an innovative task and this required effective
use of a working function. The best thing that a manager could use is to avoid the stereotype
within the organization.
Telecommunication
Interviewer: What kind of benefit you found when working with people from different cultures?
People: In telecommunication field, there is various kind of people in the organization and
working with them is quite suitable and gaining new experiences. In this field communication is
vital and with the help of the multi-cultural team, the skill of interaction and communication is
enhanced.
Interviewer: What are the challenges that you faced in the multi-cultural team?
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