TY - BOOK ID - 49171522 TI - Managing multinational teams AU - Hitt, Michael A AU - Shapiro, Debra L AU - Von Glinow, Mary Ann Young AU - Cheng, Joseph L C PY - 2009 SN - 076231219X 1849503494 9786610629770 1280629770 0080460739 9781849503495 9780080460734 6610629773 9780762312191 9781280629778 PB - Bingley Emerald Group Publishing Limited DB - UniCat KW - Teams in the workplace. KW - International business enterprises KW - Diversity in the workplace. KW - Leadership. KW - Ability KW - Command of troops KW - Followership KW - Cultural diversity in the workplace KW - Cultural diversity in workforce KW - Diversity in the workforce KW - Diversity in the work place KW - Multicultural diversity in the workplace KW - Multicultural workforce KW - Workforce diversity KW - Multiculturalism KW - Personnel management KW - Groups, Work KW - Team building in the workplace KW - Team work in the workplace KW - Teambuilding in the workplace KW - Teams, Work KW - Teamwork in the workplace KW - Work groups KW - Work teams KW - Social groups KW - Work environment KW - Management. KW - Gestion interculturelle KW - Management & management techniques. KW - Multinationals. KW - Business & Economics KW - International KW - General. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:49171522 AB - Two recent developments from globalization have fundamentally altered the nature of work organizations: the workforce has become increasingly diverse in national and cultural origins, and work assignments are increasingly performed by teams consisting of members located in different countries. Together, these changes have resulted in employees increasingly finding themselves working in culturally diverse, geographical dispersed, multinational teams. Yet, relatively little scholarship has been done to study the dynamics of such teams and how they can be better managed. The current volume presents cutting-edge theorizing and research from a multidisciplinary (e.g., psychology-, communications/technology-, organizational behavior-, and strategy-oriented) group of scholars who have been active in studying multinational teams in a global context. This book is divided into three parts. The first includes four chapters focusing on culture and other intra-group factors that affect the effective functioning of multinational teams. The second includes five chapters that examine the effect of technology and other external influences on team processes and outcomes. The third part includes four chapters dealing with leadership and management issues. The two final chapters were written by authors who have been actively involved as organizers of multi-country academic research teams whose life spans many years and continues today. Cumulatively, this books chapters provide management scholars a diversity of theoretical and methodological perspectives, at many levels of analysis, and include insights borne from the authors observation-based and/or living-based experience with the culturally-challenging issues they discuss. Additionally, these chapters also provide practicing managers useful ideas on both intra- and external-group dynamics that help increase their understanding about the effective functioning of multinational teams. As a result, this book offers both breadth and depth on the topic of managing multinational teams in a global context that promise to make its contents of interest to many audiences. ER -