Multicultural Teaming

Cultural Intelligence (CI) is the ability to make oneself understood and the ability to create a fruitful collaboration in situations where cultural differences play a role.

o Globalization and the advances in communication has increased interaction among people. o People of different cultures have different perspectives.

o Diversity in human capital leads to increased creativity and efficiency

o Failure to successfully integrate diverse workforces has negative implications on organizational performance.

National Culture

Corporate Culture

Stage of Team Development

Nature of the Industry

Personal Attributes

National culture has many dimensions like orientation to time, style of communication, personal space, etc Corporate culture is influenced by functional culture A new startup has a very creative approach and the environment is entirely different

Different industries have different culture about their various aspects like Dress, language, etiquette, unwritten codes of behaviour, accepted practice

 Formation Stage?
Rules are learnt

Performing?
Rules already set

Veterans has place for themselves Entrants struggle

Personality Own life experience Expectations Multicultural Literacy Global awareness

 Human diversity makes tolerance more than a virtue; it makes it a requirement for survival.
- Rene Dubos (U.S. microbiologist and experimental pathologist, 1901-1982)