Multicultural Team Effectiveness: Emotional Intelligence as Success Factor

Multicultural Team Effectiveness: Emotional Intelligence as Success Factor

Author: Lucia Schellwies

Publisher: Anchor Academic Publishing (aap_verlag)

Published: 2015-04

Total Pages: 53

ISBN-13: 3954894157

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As a result of the increasing globalization more and more organizations are operating internationally. Such multinational companies often rely on successful teamwork to reach goals and to compete on the fast-paced global market. Indeed, teamwork plays an important role and can lead to faster results. Teams, whose members come from different nations and backgrounds place special demands on operations, diversity clearly adds complexity and a longer learning curve for establishing effective processes. In the multicultural team, the role of emotions has gained increasing interest in the last years; practitioners report that where people work together, emotions are not far to seek. An awareness of emotions seems to be especially important as cultural differences in emotion processing and diversity among members may cause negative emotion and lead to conflict and misunderstandings what may have serious consequences reducing performance. The aim of this book is to identify challenges for multinational teams focusing on emotions within the team, and to propose emotional intelligence as an approach to multicultural team effectiveness.


Multicultural Team Effectiveness: Emotional Intelligence as Success Factor

Multicultural Team Effectiveness: Emotional Intelligence as Success Factor

Author: Lucia Schellwies

Publisher: diplom.de

Published: 2015-04-01

Total Pages: 48

ISBN-13: 3954899159

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As a result of the increasing globalization more and more organizations are operating internationally. Such multinational companies often rely on successful teamwork to reach goals and to compete on the fast-paced global market. Indeed, teamwork plays an important role and can lead to faster results. Teams, whose members come from different nations and backgrounds place special demands on operations, diversity clearly adds complexity and a longer learning curve for establishing effective processes. In the multicultural team, the role of emotions has gained increasing interest in the last years; practitioners report that where people work together, emotions are not far to seek. An awareness of emotions seems to be especially important as cultural differences in emotion processing and diversity among members may cause negative emotion and lead to conflict and misunderstandings what may have serious consequences reducing performance. The aim of this book is to identify challenges for multinational teams focusing on emotions within the team, and to propose emotional intelligence as an approach to multicultural team effectiveness.


Effective Multicultural Teams: Theory and Practice

Effective Multicultural Teams: Theory and Practice

Author: Claire B. Halverson

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2008-06-06

Total Pages: 302

ISBN-13: 140206957X

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Multicultural and multinational teams have become an important strategic and structural element of organizational work in our globalized world today. These teams are demonstrating their importance from the factory floors to the boardrooms of contemporary organizations. The emergence of multicultural teams is evident across a variety of organizations in the private, public, and civil society sectors. These developments have led to an increasing interest in the theory and practice of multicultural teams. Management educational and training programs are giving increasing attention to these developments. At the same time, there is emerging interest in research about and study of multicultural teams. This book emerged from our teaching, research, and consulting with multic- tural and diverse teams in multiple sectors over the last several years. In particular, we have developed and refined our ideas about the concepts in this book from teaching an advanced course called Effective Multicultural Teams in the Graduate Program at the School for International Training (SIT) in Vermont. We have learned from the rich background of students who are from, and have worked in, six con- nents, and who are, or plan to be, working in the public, educational, not-for-profit, and for-profit sectors. Additionally, we have engaged with a variety of teams through our consulting and training, providing consultation to teams in a variety of sectors and continents as they struggled to become more effective.


Resilience of Multicultural and Multigenerational Leadership and Workplace Experience

Resilience of Multicultural and Multigenerational Leadership and Workplace Experience

Author: Vázquez de Príncipe, Joanne

Publisher: IGI Global

Published: 2024-05-07

Total Pages: 623

ISBN-13:

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In today's volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous (VUCA) world, the challenges faced by individuals, teams, and organizations are more pressing than ever. The persistent global tragedies and instabilities demand a new approach to leadership—one that goes beyond traditional models to address the complexities of a multicultural and multigenerational workforce. The need for resilience has never been more urgent as we grapple with the aftermath of a pandemic and the ever-evolving landscape of work. The book titled Resilience of Multicultural and Multigenerational Leadership and Workplace Experience dives deep into the heart of the issue, highlighting the importance of cultivating resilience as a dynamic ability. It serves as a call to action for individuals and leaders to fortify their resilience, transforming it from a mere survival mechanism into a strategic advantage that propels individuals and organizations towards success. The core objective of Resilience of Multicultural and Multigenerational Leadership and Workplace Experience is to offer various solutions to the challenges posed by the contemporary business environment. Grounded in both theoretical and empirical research, the book aims to provide a guide for scholars and professionals navigating the complexities of leadership in a multicultural context. By delving into the strategic role of resilient leadership across various organizational levels, the book equips its readers with the tools and insights needed to not only face these challenges but emerge stronger.


Innovative Approaches to Teaching and Assessing Teamwork in Higher Education

Innovative Approaches to Teaching and Assessing Teamwork in Higher Education

Author: Cynthia G. Campbell

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2024-02-02

Total Pages: 246

ISBN-13: 1003836925

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This guide will help instructors better understand the skills that underlie effective teamwork, offer strategies for structuring group projects, and provide advice on imparting the knowledge and support that students need to develop highly functional, advanced teamwork skills. Even instructors with a great deal of experience in structuring collaborative learning projects may recognize the gap that exists between their current efforts in providing students with teamwork experiences and effectively training students’ teamwork skills. By drawing on literature from the fields of organizational teamwork and teamwork pedagogy in higher education, the authors identify the processes associated with effective teamwork, relate these processes to teamwork in student teams, and distill and organize strategies for developing students’ teamwork knowledge, skills, and attitudes. Featuring evidence-informed tools, case studies, and best practices, this highly practical text provides everything higher education instructors need to target and advance their students’ teamwork competencies while maximizing the learning benefits of peer collaboration.


Organisational Roadmap Towards Teal Organisations

Organisational Roadmap Towards Teal Organisations

Author: Tanya Bondarouk

Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing

Published: 2018-07-16

Total Pages: 286

ISBN-13: 1787563138

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This volume explores and presents challenges that “traditional” organisations experience once they take off towards self-managing organisations - what Laloux (2014) called Teal Organisations. It offers a new roadmap for leaders who are responsible for the implementation of self-managing teams in organisations.


Cultural Intelligence in the World of Work

Cultural Intelligence in the World of Work

Author: Yuan Liao

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2020-01-28

Total Pages: 186

ISBN-13: 3030181715

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This book provides a comprehensive review of both the theoretical development and empirical study of the concept of cultural intelligence. A review of previous work on cross-cultural competence provides an historical backdrop against which the two main theories of cultural intelligence are presented. These two approaches, as well as the assessments derived from them, are compared and evaluated. Issues associated with the measurement of cultural intelligence are examined in detail. An important feature of the review of the empirical work on cultural intelligence is that results are discussed in terms of the relationship of the four sub dimensions of the Cultural Intelligence Scale (CQS) and also that results using the Short Form Cultural Intelligence Scale (SFCQ) and other measures of the concept are included. The review of empirical work includes studies that cast cultural intelligence as an antecedent, as a dependent variable, and as a moderator and a mediator. Cultural intelligence at the group and organizational levels are also discussed. Finally, this review sets the stage for a discussion of appropriate future directions in the study of cultural intelligence. Scholars in organizational psychology interested in the concept of cultural intelligence will find this an essential guide.


Say Yes to Project Success

Say Yes to Project Success

Author: Karthik Ramamurthy, Sripriya Narayanasamy

Publisher: Notion Press

Published: 2017-10-09

Total Pages: 231

ISBN-13: 1947949047

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Are you under pressure to deliver? Is your life made tough by shortened schedules, tight budgets, skills gap, incomplete scope, and demanding stakeholders? Do you need help in the form of proven practical tips and techniques to help you confidently deliver project success? This book will certainly help you. What’s inside? • Superb set of 52 proven project success keys • Unbeatable breadth of insights: 108 experts, 2000+ projects, 119 countries • Comprehensive solutions to the top 20 global project failure factors • Coverage of waterfall, hybrid and agile methodologies in 54 industries • Extensive discussions on soft skills, leadership and communication • Situation, impact, and resolution presentation technique • Storytelling approach for easy understanding Read on to get your project off to a flying start and deliver in style!


Leading Global Teams

Leading Global Teams

Author: Jessica L. Wildman

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2014-11-10

Total Pages: 357

ISBN-13: 1493920502

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This breakthrough volume details the psychological and interpersonal skills needed to meet the practical challenges of building, developing, adapting, training, and managing multicultural global teams. Its self-regulation approach offers cognitive keys to understanding and embracing difference and its associated complexities for successful global collaborations and lasting results. From this foundation, the book moves on to the various roles of leadership in facilitating team process, from establishing trust to defusing conflicts, reducing biases, and using feedback effectively. This synthesis of research and practice effectively blends real-world experience and the science of global team leadership to address the complex issues facing modern organizations. Core skills covered by the book: Structuring successful global virtual teams. Developing cross-cultural competencies through global teams. Managing active faultlines and conflicts in global teams. Coaching global teams and global team leaders. Utilizing feedback effectively across cultures. Meeting the global need for leaders through Guided Mindfulness. Leading Global Teams is mind-opening reading for students, scholars, and practitioners in industrial and organizational psychology, organizational behavior, work psychology, and applied psychology programs looking for the most current research and best practices regarding its timely subject.


Intercultural Interactions in the Multicultural Workplace

Intercultural Interactions in the Multicultural Workplace

Author: Małgorzata Rozkwitalska

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2016-10-01

Total Pages: 314

ISBN-13: 3319397710

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This volume explores the work environment in multinational corporations. To do so, it integrates studies on the organizational sciences, cross-cultural management, positive psychology and sociology within a single comprehensive framework. Twenty-two authors from six countries identify the challenges in multicultural workplaces, the positives of interactions, cultural clashes and their organizational preconditions. They add inter-organizational, institutional and critical perspectives to the analysis within the framework of multinationals and complex, hybrid cultural environments. The book addresses the needs of researchers in the areas of intercultural management, and those of practitioners in international human resource management.