Question

You are an international manager of a virtual team for a parent organization that is based in the United States. The team members are new to each other and only recognize names because of emails. Because the team members do not know each other, you must develop a plan to build trust among the team. Your task is to determine the native country profile of each team member. Then, determine the cultural challenges and benefits this team will face

Focus on the cultural relationships. The team consists of the following members:

1. Val – a Romanian citizen living in the United Kingdom

2. Aiko – a Japanese citizen living in China

3. Ming Tsai – a Chinese citizen living in Mexico

4. Ana Maria – a Colombian citizen living in Spain

5. Yourself – an American citizen living in the United States

Use critical thinking to apply depth and breadth. Be concise and address the countries and team members and the challenges and benefits the team will face. Go beyond description. Focus on cultural relationships.

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Managing diversity and inclusiveness at work place helps in ensuring a motivating environment if diversity is effectively addressed. Diversity can be based on gender as well as culture. However in an organizational parlance the cultural dimensions   have a greater leverage. In this case since the team members belong to various nationalities, the culture of the organization can be set as context to manage cultural diversities.

Plan of activities for effective team work

1. Provide opportunities for interaction among team members to socialize and understand each member in their team

2. Propagate the home country culture though culture sensitization methods and training

3. Clarify the roles of each member, and define a mutually supporting norms of interaction among team members

4. Reward the team spirit

5. Identify a team member to moderate team conversation and manage relationship

6. Use technology to share resources, ensure transparency, monitor and communicate progress among team members

7. Have frequent sessions on understanding different cultures

8. Create sessions of engagement to ease out the stress, misunderstanding if any among team and encourage oneness

9. Encourage members to value the ideas of others in team.