scholarly journals Multicultural Team Management in the Context of a Development Work

2015 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 8
Author(s):  
Molla Mekonnen Alemu
Keyword(s):  
Culturally Diverse ◽  
Current Trend ◽  
Cultural Background ◽  
Communication Styles ◽  
Development Work ◽  
Team Management ◽  
Team Members ◽  
Cross Cultural Differences ◽  
Set Up ◽  
Multicultural Team

Diverse teams have become common practice in today’s world. The current trend of globalization is making managers to work in a diverse multicultural team set up whereby the diversified team members will come up with a new set of skills, ideas, approaches, etc. to the team. It has however, its own challenges in harmonizing the contribution of the culturally diverse team members. Cross-cultural differences in a development work context also entail a range of issues varying from individuals cultural background, characteristics on work places, to their own values and ways of doing things which will have a its own influence on their working style, interactions and relationships at work places. Communication styles, language, a person's cultural background, and perceptions on conflict, styles and methods of doing the work as well as the style of decision making will have an impact how individuals will act and behave in work places. Therefore, the question will be how a manager can successfully lead and work in a culturally diverse team. This study was conducted in Sierra Leone which was aimed at identifying the major bottlenecks of multicultural team management and come up with workable tips for working within a multicultural setting development work.

School to Community Transition Planning: Factors to Consider When Working with Culturally Diverse Students and Families in Rural Settings

1994 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 51-56 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lori A. Navarrete ◽  
Warren J. White
Keyword(s):  
Role Models ◽  
Cultural Awareness ◽  
Culturally Diverse ◽  
Planning Process ◽  
Transition Planning ◽  
School Personnel ◽  
Communication Styles ◽  
Diverse Students ◽  
Culturally Diverse Students ◽  
Team Members

Given the nation's rapidly increasing number of culturally and linguistically diverse students and families, understanding and learning to work with individuals who represent varying world views and communication styles should be a priority for school personnel. Parents and family members are very important participants in transition planning. Their role should be one of equal partnership with the school and other agencies involved in the planning process. The authors of this article address issues related to working with families who are culturally diverse. The authors make recommendations for improving the multicultural competence of transition team members. Suggestions for increasing parent involvement as well as ideas for exposing students to role models of color are presented. Increasing cultural awareness and sensitivity to differences is imperative for successful transition planning.

scholarly journals Developing a BIM-Based MUVR Treadmill System for Architectural Design Review and Collaboration

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (15) ◽  
pp. 6881
Author(s):  
Calvin Chung Wai Keung ◽  
Jung In Kim ◽  
Qiao Min Ong
Keyword(s):  
Architectural Design ◽  
Human Locomotion ◽  
Virtual Space ◽  
Design Stage ◽  
Design Review ◽  
Team Members ◽  
Physical Constraints ◽  
Simulated Environment ◽  
Set Up ◽  
High Level

Virtual reality (VR) is quickly becoming the medium of choice for various architecture, engineering, and construction applications, such as design visualization, construction planning, and safety training. In particular, this technology offers an immersive experience to enhance the way architects review their design with team members. Traditionally, VR has used a desktop PC or workstation setup inside a room, yielding the risk of two users bump into each other while using multiuser VR (MUVR) applications. MUVR offers shared experiences that disrupt the conventional single-user VR setup, where multiple users can communicate and interact in the same virtual space, providing more realistic scenarios for architects in the design stage. However, this shared virtual environment introduces challenges regarding limited human locomotion and interactions, due to physical constraints of normal room spaces. This study thus presented a system framework that integrates MUVR applications into omnidirectional treadmills. The treadmills allow users an immersive walking experience in the simulated environment, without space constraints or hurt potentialities. A prototype was set up and tested in several scenarios by practitioners and students. The validated MUVR treadmill system aims to promote high-level immersion in architectural design review and collaboration.

Cross-Cultural Differences in Strategies of Peer Persuasion of Hebrew-Speaking and Arabic-Speaking Children

2020 ◽  
Vol 20 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 355-372
Author(s):  
Rachel Karniol
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Differences ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Communication Styles ◽  
Language Group ◽  
Participant Gender ◽  
Cross Cultural Differences ◽  
Female Peer ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Arabic Speaking ◽  
Main Effects

Abstract The purpose of the current research was to examine strategies of persuasion used by Arabic-speaking and Hebrew-speaking boys and girls to determine the relative contributions of culture and gender in determining communication styles. Children were asked to write a letter to a male or female peer asking for a gender-stereotyped or a gender-neutral gift. Four meta-categories were identified: formality, self-focus, other-focus, and gift-focus. For each meta-category except gift-focus, there were significant main effects and interactions. Language group was significant for formality and other-focus but not for self-focus. Importantly, there were several interactions between participant gender, target gender, and gender-stereotypy of gift, but these did not interact with language group. The results were discussed in the context of children’s socialization to the ethos of musayara and dugri in Arabic-speaking and Hebrew-speaking culture.

High Performance Teams

2016 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 72-82 ◽  
Author(s):  
Caroline Dominguez ◽  
Isabel C. Moura ◽  
João Varajão
Keyword(s):  
High Performance ◽  
Business Environment ◽  
Reward Systems ◽  
Team Management ◽  
Key Factors ◽  
Team Members ◽  
High Performing ◽  
Exploratory Case Study ◽  
Performance Teams

Effective team management is one of the key factors that allow companies to tackle the challenges of today's demanding business environment. Although high-performing teams have been studied for some time, very little has been written on them from the construction industry's perspective. Based on the conclusions of previous work and on a project involving 44 professionals of seven teams, this exploratory case study intends to evaluate if there is a gap between what team members and leaders perceive as being (a) the most important features for managing teams into high performance and (b) the features that are present in their teams. The present study shows that, although teams under investigation had some high-performing features at the leadership dimension, there is room for improvement, in particular when it comes to empowering team members, involving them in planning the work, and creating proper reward systems.

scholarly journals Multicultural Teamwork as a Source of Experiential Learning and Intercultural Development

2011 ◽  
Vol 9 ◽  
pp. 143 ◽  
Author(s):  
María del Carmen Méndez García ◽  
María Luisa Pérez Cañado
Keyword(s):  
Experiential Learning ◽  
Theoretical Consideration ◽  
Intercultural Competence ◽  
Global Teams ◽  
Intercultural Development ◽  
Team Members ◽  
Life Long Learning ◽  
Multicultural Team

This paper delves into multicultural teamwork as a source of experiential learning. It starts with a theoretical consideration of work in global teams, with a particular stress on the possibilities they offer for experiential learning on a cooperative and collaborative basis. From a practical sphere, the paper presents part of the results yielded by a study on multicultural teamwork dynamics in which the opportunities these types of groups provide for learning on the spot are explored in the light of the team members’ development of key components of intercultural competence. The paper concludes with a reflection on the relevance of experiential learning for multicultural team workers’ life-long learning.

People

2019 ◽  
pp. 169-179
Keyword(s):  
Enterprise Management ◽  
Organizational Networks ◽  
Team Management ◽  
Team Members ◽  
Collaborative Practices ◽  
Successful Team ◽  
Increase Efficiency

This chapter discusses the importance of every team in enterprise management. In fact, people are not just employees any more, they are team members. How to form a team and who should be taken in a startup team? What are the main threats of successful team? How to apply collaborative practices to design top-level cross-organizational networks? In this chapter, the authors give recommendations on modern team management and advice on how to increase efficiency of the existing teams.

Understanding Composition and Conflict in Virtual Teams

2011 ◽  
pp. 35-48 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard Potter ◽  
Pierre Balthazard
Keyword(s):  
Virtual Teams ◽  
Virtual Team ◽  
Conventional Wisdom ◽  
Team Members ◽  
Interaction Styles ◽  
Process Outcomes ◽  
Low Performance ◽  
Set Up ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Constructive Interaction

Drawing from several years of empirical research, in this chapter, we look at the impact of the personalities of individual team members on the performance and process outcomes of virtual teams. Our studies showed that both too few and too many extroverts in a virtual team may result in low performance. While conventional wisdom says that teams should be set up on the basis of expertise, we argue that the resulting interaction styles of the members must be considered when establishing a virtual team. We offer suggestions for managers on assessing the potential for constructive interaction styles.

The Role of Virtual Multicultural Teams in Corporate Culture

2011 ◽  
pp. 62-86 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amira El Guindi ◽  
Sherif Kamel
Keyword(s):  
Virtual Teams ◽  
Corporate Culture ◽  
Multicultural Teams ◽  
Cultural Backgrounds ◽  
Global Organizations ◽  
Team Members ◽  
The World ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Multicultural Team

Information and communication technologies are impacting today’s organizations and businesses in many diverse ways. The implications are perceived at the individual, organizational, and national levels. The old accustomed-to boundaries of national economies and markets are giving way to globalization and newly emerging trends. Competition is increasing, and due to the forces of change, the world market will sweep aside the small market players to make way for global organizations that are capable of penetrating the world markets through a massive global outreach strategy. In that respect, there is a need to invest in innovative business models such as virtual multicultural teams that are capable of handling the pressures of growing competition while capitalizing on the evolution of information and communication technology. Global organizations need to operate through a very flexible structure that allows freedom and speed, and replaces the hierarchical models with structures that are flatter and adequate for stronger and more efficient communication. Such a structure will allow bottom-up decision making and self-management and will capitalize on the advantages of employing multicultural teams; the diversified capacities, knowledge and business perception of these teams will be conducive to more in-depth innovation and creativity. Virtual teams can provide an organization with a solid opportunity to compete, making it easier to adapt to different situations and reducing conflicts. This chapter reflects the results of a study conducted in Egypt that targeted the determination of the possibility of reducing multicultural team conflicts by establishing a corporate culture that could have a strong influence on team members using virtual teams. The study covered six organizations operating through virtual multicultural teams and describes the analysis of the findings that relate to the role of corporate culture, the management style, and conflict resolution, among other elements. Global organizations face the challenge of operating through global multicultural teams whose members—coming from different cultural backgrounds—often stumble into conflicts that influence the overall performance of the organization. The core issue of this study is the impact of multicultural team conflicts on the overall organizational performance. Therefore, the objective of the study was to examine the relationship between corporate culture and multicultural team conflicts and to determine whether it is possible to reduce multicultural team conflicts by building a corporate culture in which all individual cultures would fit and where the management plays a vital role in transmitting the corporate culture to different teams in order to help global organizations become more efficient using virtual multicultural teams.

A trans-cultural comparison of the organisation of care at headache centres world-wide

Cephalalgia ◽  
2010 ◽  
Vol 31 (3) ◽  
pp. 316-330 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ria Bhola ◽  
Peter J Goadsby
Keyword(s):  
Physical Therapists ◽  
Cultural Economic ◽  
Team Members ◽  
Nursing Role ◽  
Global Perspectives ◽  
Organisation Of Care ◽  
Service Organisation ◽  
Set Up ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Headache Centres

Background: The need to provide better outcomes for patients with headache, and to minimise the costs involved in doing so, has prompted the search for new modes of service delivery by exploring the service organisation and nursing role from various cultural, economic and global perspectives. Materials and Methods: This study was based on comparisons with the UK headache service up to 2007, the point at which this study was set up. This UK service was based at the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery (NHNN, UCLH Trust). Data were obtained from US headache centres in 2008 and from centres in Copenhagen, Bangkok, Sydney and Porto Alegre in 2009. Results: A comparison shows the key components of services at all centres showing the team structure and size of service. Prominent features at the centres included: team-working, regular meetings, educational input, good access and communication among team members, headache-trained neurologists, specialist nursing at most centres, and the input of psychological and physical therapists at some centres. Conclusions: The problems of tertiary headache care are very similar throughout the world and seem to transcend ethnic, cultural and economic considerations.

Electrically Conducting Neoprene and Rubber

1942 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 146-157 ◽  
Author(s):  
B. J. Habgood ◽  
J. R. S. Waring
Keyword(s):  
Volume Resistivity ◽  
Acetylene Black ◽  
Development Work ◽  
Electrically Conducting ◽  
Rubber Compounds ◽  
Transverse Volume ◽  
Transverse Conductivity ◽  
Set Up ◽  
Longitudinal Resistivity ◽  
Conducting Rubber

Abstract (1) The scattered references in the literature dealing with conducting rubber have been collected together. (2) A résumé of existing ideas on the mechanism of electrical conduction is given, from which certain lines of development work suggested themselves. (3) Electrically conducting Neoprene or rubber compounds based on acetylene black are anisotropic, an effect which is particularly pronounced after extrusion. (4) By the use of fine channel black, either alone or in addition to acetylene black, the transverse conductivity is improved, thus reducing the anisotropy. (5) A further improvement can be obtained by using highly plasticized Neoprene or rubber which reduces the shear during extrusion operations. In the case of Neoprene, zinc oxide is omitted from the mixings to prevent set-up. (6) Conducting tubes having a transverse volume resistivity of 300 ohms per cu. cm., and a longitudinal resistivity of 60 to 70 ohms per cu. cm. have been obtained, using a potential difference of 6 volts. (7) Provisional methods of testing conducting rubber are suggested.

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