1MANAGING GLOBAL TEAMS With EWS taking the advantage of an opportunity present in the West African regions to expand their business, they face the challenge of falling into the trap of creating teams based on the need for the project to be completed, and not focusing on the need for more localized and diverse opinions that may be required to accomplish the project. It will be important for EWS to build teams with members that have expertise from all over the world and this can provide different perspectiveson strategic and organizational challenges. Multicultural teams are able to understand more and have respect for cultural differences, which will teach the employees to be tolerant, flexible and open-minded (Saarinen 2016). When the global teams has been initiated, managers at EWS will realize that everyday tasks are becoming more challenging since it is important to reach a consensus from everybody across the different locations. Mixed messages arising from cultural differences is capable of arising distrust and overall negativity within the members of the team is a big obstacle and it will be one that will be important to note as the complexity of projects increase. For a manager at EWS to become a global team manager, he/she will face challenges of limited in-person interaction that will give rise to more issues related to time zones and languages (Tenzer and Pudelko 2015). To minimize the issues of managing a team over international borders, EWS will have to start using a variety of communication technologies such as video and audio conferencing along with e-mails. To successfully manage a global team, there are three important things that a manager should do. The EWS manager should navigate the different time zones and find possible meeting times suitable for everyone, be fully aware of the national holidays in all the countries, share a common software platform that is accessible to all the members and make sure that the team members are checking up on each other as well.
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3MANAGING GLOBAL TEAMS References: Saarinen, J., 2016. Managing global virtual teams. Tenzer, H. and Pudelko, M., 2015. Leading across language barriers: Managing language- induced emotions in multinational teams.The Leadership Quarterly,26(4), pp.606-625.