Multicultural Managers

Multicultural Managers

1. Identity of a executive “global”

   • Benefits
     • Creative
     • Adaptive
     • Leadership skills
     • Cognitive integration
   • Disadvantages
     • Personality
       • Extroverted
       • Sociable
       • Assertive
     • Religion
     • Custom
   • Not Enough
     • Ethnic background and early childhood experiences.
     • The experience of living in multiple cultures
     • Language fluency
     • Parents from different cultural origins
     • Studying and working abroad
   • New Rule
     • Integrating new team members from different cultures
       • Wuickly develop their own norms of interaction
         • “in or out”
     • Anticipating cross-cultural conflicts, and addressing them, something critical to the effectiveness of global teams.
     • Mediating the relationship between global teams
       • High level of cultural diversity among their members
   • Integrate
     • Positive difference to the success of global innovation projects and processes.
     • Develop and launch product line
       • Exploit what I've got from one part to other parts of the world