Worldwide Telecommunications, Inc

Worldwide Telecommunications , Inc

Introduction

Global diversity is changing the way people look at the world . American work force continues to include more multicultural workers all the time Expansion of Worldwide Telecommunications , Inc . to world markets will add even more diversity , forever altering just what one means by corporate culture ' However , having a multicultural work force does not guarantee that Expansion of Worldwide Telecommunications , Inc . will have a multicultural culture . Creating that culture requires supervision and evaluation practices and policies that nurture and bring into harmony cultural differences . This forecasts possible

cultural changes inside Worldwide Telecommunications , Inc . and suggests the strategies that might be employed to manage these changes to create fully functional teams

Main Body

Some scholars have argued that teams of multicultural organizations can be highly effective if they develop common norms for operating and shared work capability expectations (Earley and Gibson 2002 ,

. 26 These elements make up a hybrid culture (Earley and Mosakowski 2000 br

. 40 . This does not mean that every employee of Worldwide Telecommunications , Inc . will have the same views , but that significant mutual understanding will exist . This in turn will facilitate individual and team work and communication . A hybrid culture will be the newly developed patterns of team member cooperation and shared agreements that will be explicitly developed over time . Given both increasing internationalization and the prevalence of multicultural groups in Worldwide Telecommunications , Inc , addressing the challenges that people face as they organize themselves in multicultural teams and how to build hybrid culture to overcome these becomes an essential task for the organization

De Meuse and O 'Neill (2007 ,

.139 ) state that all employees need supervision , but the degree and kind of attention they need varies by the individual . Supervisors in multicultural companies can provide culturally appropriate supervision that both motivates individual employees by using culturally specific techniques and creates cohesive and efficient teamwork among culturally diverse employees

This culturally appropriate supervision differs from the traditional concept of supervision that is intended to direct and inspect the work of employees . In culturally appropriate supervision , the supervisor 's role is to provide the environment and resources that all of his or her employees need to be sufficiently productive members of the multicultural organization . Culturally appropriate supervision in Worldwide Telecommunications , Inc . will empower employees . As a result managers of Worldwide Telecommunications , Inc . will serve rather than supervise their employees . Managers will be used by or are of use to their employees rather than vice versa (De Meuse and O 'Neill 2007 br

.145

Creating multicultural culture requires training in both multicultural literacy and management as service . In to respond to cultural changes within the organization , managers will recognize and value diverse work styles , problem-solving art , ways of learning and gaining knowledge , and opinions about problems and solutions . In to learn how to recognize and value diversity , managers will need to become informed of different cultures and how to ask questions when they communicate with new cultures or behaviors that they do not...