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LA2 Cross-cultural teams
By now you have noticed that our text addresses culture at the end of each chapter, and our weekly readings address both cultural and age diversity. These are keenly important in 21st century business. Your week 5 case study pertains to managing cross-cultural teams, so let’s take a stab at initial discussions this week.
Let’s say your company is located in a US city into which the US Immigration Service relocates refugees and asylees, making it a very culturally-diverse workforce. You have been hired on to establish a new work team from your current employee labor pool whose members represent a variety of cultures. Using the cultural resources below as well as our text and weekly readings, what are the priorities—what should you do first to form this team? Think in terms of size, tasks, roles, norms, type, etc., as well as using our theories from last week to prove this team will be motivated. Be creative and choose the country of origin for your various team members.
For both of our LA’s this week you will particularly need to use:
· Geert Hofstede’s renowned typology on national cultural values http://geert-hofstede.com/national-culture.html . This site also provides a country-comparison page to compare other cultures against our US culture.
· Beyond Intractability’s extensive article database on cross-cultural communications and behaviors. Cross-cultural communications http://www.beyondintractability.org/essay/cross-cultural-communication and Communication Tools for Understanding Cultural Differences http://www.beyondintractability.org/essay/communication-tools
Also use our text and at least two other weekly content materials to explain or defend your points. Your initial response should be at least 350 words in length to earn any points. Cite all reference sources using APA format. Use in-text parenthetical citations, for example (Organizational Behavior, 2014, ch. #, p. #), within your response content, and full citations referenced at end (see Content/Using APA
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/15/opinion/sunday/the-rise-of-the-new-groupthink.html?pagewanted=1&_r=4&partner=rss&emc=rss&
https://econsultancy.com/blog/63377-the-benefits-and-challenges-of-remote-teams
