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The impact of cultural identity on effective global leadership and teamwork

If organizations can better assess employees identity configurations, they may be better able to select certain people for critical multicultural positions.
September 4, 2018
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On a multinational work team, are you an assimilated local or a global ambassador? Working abroad, your unique cultural identity vis-à-vis your home and host countries, as well as your global outlook, impacts team effectiveness and how you are perceived as a leader. Research by Yih-Teen Lee and B. Sebastian Reiche sheds light on how.

In self-managed teams working across borders, how do team members' unique cultural identities boost or hinder output? This research points to some answers.

 

Based on: "Navigating between Home, Host, and Global: Consequences of Multicultural Team Members' Identity Configurations" by Yih-Teen Lee, Aline Masuda, Xin Fu and B. Sebastian Reiche, Academy of Management Discoveries, vol. 4, no 2. Used with permission from the Academy of Management.