Intercultural Competence in Multicultural Teams

Abstract

This chapter extends the topic of intercultural competence in organizations to the context of multicultural professional work teams. Leadership of modern organizations places high value on self-managed work teams and collaboration between employees and organizations. This chapter highlights the importance of intercultural competence for multicultural teams, some challenges and advantages of multicultural teams, and explains how intercultural competence can help to develop coherent and effective culturally diverse teams.