Global Human Resource Management
ased on your reading this week, determine two (2) of the challenges facing intercultural teams, and suggest how to overcome each of those challenges.
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ASSUMPTION OF SIMILARITIES- The assumption of similarity does not often extend to the expectation of a common verbal language, but it does interfere with decoding nonverbal symbols, signs and signals. A person’s cultural upbringing determines whether or not an emotion will be displayed or suppressed, as well as on which occasion and to what degree. The situations that bring about an emotional feeling also differ from culture to culture, as humans are in many ways dependent on their culture.
NONVERBAL MISINTERPRETATION- People from different cultures inhabit different sensory realities. They see, hear, feel, and smell only that which has some meaning or importance for them. They focus on whatever fits into their personal world of recognition and then interpret it through their own culture’s frame of reference. The misinterpretation of observable nonverbal signs and symbols such as gestures, postures, and other body movements is a definite communication barrier. However, it is possible to learn the meanings of these messages, usually in informal rather than formal ways. It is more difficult to understand the unspoken codes of the other culture that are less obvious, such as the handling of time and spatial relationships and subtle signs of respect or formality
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There are different challenges that intercultural teams face. One of the challenges that intercultural teams face is groupthink. Groupthink is the situation whereby some members of a team do not see the need to contribute to a particular motion of a team. They tend to conform to whatever is being said in the group even though they do not agree with it. Groupthink tends to occur in different teams but it has been noted to occur mostly in intercultural teams (Guilherme, Glaser, and Méndez, 2010). There are reasons why this is the case. In an intercultural team some members may feel like their points are not welcome or will not be considered because…
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