MGMT2102 Reflection Paper
MGMT2102-Managing Across Cultures
Reflection
Cross-cultural literacy and experiences are playing an increasingly important part in developing a global management team particularly in a cultural-diversity team or organization. Building an effective global business team by Govindarajan and Gupta’s told us that multinational corporations looking to exploit global economic of scale, transfer of knowledge etc needs to master managing global business teams. And the Adam’s presents three culturally determined strategies for resolving conflict between organizational members from different cultures.
For the past peer reviewed presentation, the purpose of this presentation is to help us gaining more experiences by working in a multicultural team. This teamwork exercise has given me an opportunity to develop my cultural learning and improve my understanding of the concept of culture.
Be more specific about the part of communication, there is individualistic versus collectivistic in the cultural aspect. The collective require consensus on decisions and the individual view this as lower priority. Our group was in the prevalence of collectivism which has pros and cons. In a positive way, our team members can put forward different ideas then put them all together to achieve our goal. Furthermore, our team members select the best ideas to present and arrangement the points without any questions. During the discussion, we had different personal opinions due to the shortage of individualism so some conflicts arisen. To solve this problem, we tended to continue the ideas then discussed which one is most accepted. Therefore, there aren’t many diverse ideas until finished the discussion. Next time, I will think out more ideas then try to communicate with my team members more. At same time, I will listen to others about their opinions clearly and try to compare different ideas then choose the best idea. The communication is the important factor in the multinational
Reflection
Cross-cultural literacy and experiences are playing an increasingly important part in developing a global management team particularly in a cultural-diversity team or organization. Building an effective global business team by Govindarajan and Gupta’s told us that multinational corporations looking to exploit global economic of scale, transfer of knowledge etc needs to master managing global business teams. And the Adam’s presents three culturally determined strategies for resolving conflict between organizational members from different cultures.
For the past peer reviewed presentation, the purpose of this presentation is to help us gaining more experiences by working in a multicultural team. This teamwork exercise has given me an opportunity to develop my cultural learning and improve my understanding of the concept of culture.
Be more specific about the part of communication, there is individualistic versus collectivistic in the cultural aspect. The collective require consensus on decisions and the individual view this as lower priority. Our group was in the prevalence of collectivism which has pros and cons. In a positive way, our team members can put forward different ideas then put them all together to achieve our goal. Furthermore, our team members select the best ideas to present and arrangement the points without any questions. During the discussion, we had different personal opinions due to the shortage of individualism so some conflicts arisen. To solve this problem, we tended to continue the ideas then discussed which one is most accepted. Therefore, there aren’t many diverse ideas until finished the discussion. Next time, I will think out more ideas then try to communicate with my team members more. At same time, I will listen to others about their opinions clearly and try to compare different ideas then choose the best idea. The communication is the important factor in the multinational