Management of multicultural teams. Practical lessons learned from university students

Joanna Szydło, Danuta Szpilko, Claudia Rus, Codruta Osoian

This book features the competences and skills that university students as future leaders should acquire in order to work in multicultural teams. Multicultural teams have become the basic unit for many organizations. Combined work using different technology, places, time zones, persons of different cultures require knowledge and skills to lead this team. Unreflective teaching methods can cause a lower level of efficiency and effectiveness. The gap knowledge in the current students’ skills of multicultural work may be interesting for university lecturers to improve quality of a university leadership program, and also for HR practitioners to develop managerial competences. This book focuses on leading and developing multicultural teams in the process of shaping their competence for the new (prospects) organizational requirements. Effective strategies and clever techniques to improve leadership and management skills are needed in the multicultural environment. The premise of this book is to pay attention on how to lead and develop multicultural teams by providing more directed tips to improve the quality of a university program and thereby develop effective leaders within their organization. The better the leadership, the better the multicultural teams.