Managing Teams in the Multicultural Organizations

A conceptual meta-framework for managing multicultural global virtual teams

Although GVTs can bring about many benefits for organisations, the potential advantages of using GVTs largely depend upon fulfilling the requirements prescribed by the critical success factors (CSFs) of implementing GVTs such as resolving the multiculturalism issues. Likewise, it is acknowledged that management aspects of implementing GVTs present one of the most complicated tasks in deploying ...

Managing cross-cultural communication in multicultural construction project teams: The case of Kenya and UK

The increasing global nature of construction projects has highlighted the importance of multiculturalism and the new challenges it brings to project execution. However, there has, as yet, been no empirical work that quantifies explicitly the extent to which communication determines the success of multicultural projects. This paper explores the ability of project managers in Kenya and the UK in ...

An Emotion Process Model for Multicultural Teams

The impact of emotion in organizations has been an increasingly popular – and increasingly popularized – topic in recent decades. In light of the oftensweeping claims that have been made in the name of ‘‘emotional intelligence’’ (e.g., Goleman, 1995), excitement among practitioners, academics, and the public alike has brought greater attention to the affective element of workplace life. Emotion...

Leadership emergence in multicultural teams: The power of global characteristics

Building on theories of person-environment fit and on the pattern approach, we hypothesized that emergent leaders in multicultural teams score higher than non-leaders in terms of the three global characteristics, of cultural intelligence, global identity and openness to cultural diversity. We tested this hypothesis on a sample of 317 MBA students who worked on a four-week joint project in virtu...

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