Proposal for Multicultural Management
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Write a proposal for multicultural management in the virtual project setting.
You should:
- Identify the most critical issues faced by managers with regard to the topic
- Outline solutions to the issues you identify using theories and best practices presented international business subjects.
- Cite real-world examples (you may wish to focus on the issues and challenges faced by a particular organization, but should include more than one organization in your analysis)
- Consider any ethical implications of both the problems and the solutions that you identify.
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Problems:
Management of virtual teams is very different from management of an ordinary team. Problems arise when managers tend to use same practices of management for virtual team arrangements. The management can be more challenging if the team is made up of people from different cultures.
People from different cultures tend to misunderstand each other's behavior and hence distrust creeps in. Online environment tend to focus on tasks and hence provides restricted opportunity for a full range of more social, relational development. This can be more difficult for those who are from collectivistic cultures. Hence, employees with cultural background of relatively high degree of uncertainty avoidance and collectivism will have lower level of satisfaction being part of a virtual team.
Solutions:
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