This essay focuses on communication management and team leadership . A project manager leading a global project with teams from multiple countries.
Details This is an individual report focusing on communication management and team leadership in managing all stages of project life cycle. Specifically, this assignment requires students to think about how project managers effectively manage cultural diversity for the benefit of projects. Following scenarios will help you guide your thinking. Scenarios: Select a scenario from the list below: 1. A project manager leading a culturally diverse project team in delivering a domestic project 2. A project manager leading a project in another country which has a different culture from Australia 3.
. Questions: Select one of the above scenarios and use the following questions as guiding questions to develop your essay. 1. Why is managing cultural diversity important in contemporary project management? 2. How do project managers effectively lead multicultural project teams? 3. How do project managers effectively manage communications in multicultural project teams? 4. What overall advice would you give to someone who would be managing a culturally diverse project team?
You are require to: – Read the relevant course material and additional scholarly literature on managing projects with a special focus on cultural diversity in projects, communication management in a multi-cultural environment and virtual project teams etc. – Reflect on the literature on project management specifically on concepts, processes, skills, and methods and your experience in managing projects in organisations including your experience in managing the group project in Assignment 2.Organisations are becoming more and more diverse due to the increasing globalisation of business operations. Multicultural project teams can potentially assist in better decision making and bring in greater creativity and innovation
Additionally, the possibility for an organisation to learn through multinational project teams is perceive as the main attributor of the more international viewpoint. However, multiple cultural backgrounds of project team members can also create conflicts, communication breakdowns and increase stress levels. It is therefore necessary to fully appreciate multicultural project teams, together with their advantages and drawbacks and understand their management. This paper explores the literature available on managing multicultural project teams. Three main challenges facing multicultural project teams are presented: cultural diversity,