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Multicultural Teams : - Coggle Diagram
Multicultural Teams :
Benefits
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Get to consider the host culture from various perspectives, through the eyes of different cultrual 'glasses'. Which makes the collective wisdom and understanding greater.
Suspicion by the host culture (as political agents, intruders, outsiders or colonizers etc.) and other weaknesses can be offset by collective representation and collaboration.
Resources for operations towards the realization of team goals can usually be less difficult to assemble because team members are linked to different economic realities.
Members in a multicultural team have a greater potential for growth because there is a lot of education that can happen when people interact with those from different cultures.
More, diverse and creative solutions or tools to challenges that arise are available in the teams collective toolkit.
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It's virtually impossible for a single culture to take the Gospel to "the ends of the earth"; collaboration is not only helpful, it's a necessity
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Challenges
Where there are more cultures interacting, there are more opportunities for communication differences and misunderstandings
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Language use.. choosing a ‘common wider’ language to operate in as a team can marginalise those for whom the common language is not their first language.
Challenges: It takes more time and effort to develop the team community and learn each other's strengths and weaknesses
And for team members whose cultures place a high value on efficiency over relationship, they may see little to no value in this time and effort
It takes time and effort for leaders/organizations to train new members well in regard to multicultural teams and give clear vision and direction to organizational expectations that are non-negotiable.
Members of multicultural teams have conflicting values, so the team values need to be negotiated, explicitly articulated, and agreed on.
The possibility of a dominant culture being present within a multicultural team can create feelings of both superiority and inferiority complexes, thus disintegrating the team.
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It reflects the multiculturality of the church the body of Christ. Also points to the fact that the simple truth of the gospel of God's grace does not depend on a language, culture, age or gender.
Working together and establishing mutual accountability demand a higher level of communication which many times bumps onto the barriers of poor language and/or lack of cultural inteligence among the team members
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