Cultural and Teamwork Map and Self Reflection
Karlstad University
Karlstad Business School
Advanced Professional Skills
Cultural and Teamwork Map and Self Reflection
Individual Assignment
Saima Batool
Karlstad, 2012-11-28
Contents 1. Introduction and Purpose 2 2. Self-assessment 3 2.1 First impression 3 2.2 Assessment with reference to Communication Patterns 3 2.3 Assessment regarding Placement in Belbin’s team roles 4 2.4 Johari Window 5 3. Conclusion 5 Bibliography 6
1. Introduction and Purpose
Sharing of knowledge across the border is becoming very widespread phenomenon. Companies are well aware that hidden in their disperes, global operations is a treasure trove of ideas and capabilities for innovation(Wilson & Doz, 2012). Therefore, working with multicultural groups is getting more and more common very rapidly since last decade. However, in global teams, team memebers have different feed back techniques, different uniqueness levels and different communication patterns.
People belonging to different cultures have difference in values, geography, ethencity,belief system and lauguage.These difference can lead to cuture clash . In this paper I am writing about where I find myself in a cultural and team work map and my reflections about my placement thereon. I have judged myself with reference to my placement in high and low context cultures, cultural paradigm , my preffered and performed roles in my team keeping in mind Belbin‘s team roles and my position in Johari window.
Purpose of this assignmnet is to judge where I find myself right now in a cutural map in context of team work and to bring improvement in myself if I am away from the normal scale .The actual purpose of this assignment is to save me from cultural clash by giving a chance to get self-awareness and to make us conscious about behaving accordingly for future interactions. Just like these two rivers in the below mentioned picture are merging,
Karlstad Business School
Advanced Professional Skills
Cultural and Teamwork Map and Self Reflection
Individual Assignment
Saima Batool
Karlstad, 2012-11-28
Contents 1. Introduction and Purpose 2 2. Self-assessment 3 2.1 First impression 3 2.2 Assessment with reference to Communication Patterns 3 2.3 Assessment regarding Placement in Belbin’s team roles 4 2.4 Johari Window 5 3. Conclusion 5 Bibliography 6
1. Introduction and Purpose
Sharing of knowledge across the border is becoming very widespread phenomenon. Companies are well aware that hidden in their disperes, global operations is a treasure trove of ideas and capabilities for innovation(Wilson & Doz, 2012). Therefore, working with multicultural groups is getting more and more common very rapidly since last decade. However, in global teams, team memebers have different feed back techniques, different uniqueness levels and different communication patterns.
People belonging to different cultures have difference in values, geography, ethencity,belief system and lauguage.These difference can lead to cuture clash . In this paper I am writing about where I find myself in a cultural and team work map and my reflections about my placement thereon. I have judged myself with reference to my placement in high and low context cultures, cultural paradigm , my preffered and performed roles in my team keeping in mind Belbin‘s team roles and my position in Johari window.
Purpose of this assignmnet is to judge where I find myself right now in a cutural map in context of team work and to bring improvement in myself if I am away from the normal scale .The actual purpose of this assignment is to save me from cultural clash by giving a chance to get self-awareness and to make us conscious about behaving accordingly for future interactions. Just like these two rivers in the below mentioned picture are merging,
Bibliography: Wilson, K. & Doz, Y.L. (2012). 10 Rules for Managing Global Innovation. Harvard business review, 85 (10), 84-90. South, B. (2007). Combining mandala and the Johari Window: An exercise in self-awareness. Teaching & Learning in Nursing,2 (1), 8.