Essay from Latvia

Both society and business benefit from multicultural teamwork skills

Teamwork and especially multicultural teamwork nowadays is considered as the reason why world keeps existing. Multicultural teamwork provides both society and business with innovative ideas that keep society and business moving forward. Directors and managers tend to hire people from different cultures in order to improve productivity and work-environment.

Let us start by considering that teamwork is the thing that keeps business running even if people of different cultural backgrounds are involved. These days there are alot of companies that hire people from different countries. Of course, directors and managers need to have proper approach how to manage them because every culture has its own opinion about what kind of a leader they need. For example French people are used to leaders who are dictatorial and autocratic. Meetings are also very crucial events that need to be held. At start they must be held very often so different people could get to know each other and, of course, to share their different ideas and opinions. These meetings will develop their language, communication skills, working skills, respect  and productivity which hugely contributes to business.

Society is also a winner when we talk about multicultural teamwork. One of the benefits that society receives are new,qualitative and innovative products because when people of different cultural backgrounds work together, they generate lots of good ideas and the best ones are chosen to be put into practice. Another benefit can be seen in international schools where students are from different counties. While working in a group consisting of different culture people they, learn not to be affraid of them, how to respect them and how to support them when the time comes. This will boost their performance in the future and will bring huge advantages to the company they will be working for.

It is now time to discuss the other side of multicultural teamwork. Not always multicultural teamwork will bring only benefits to society and business. For example, there are people who are used to doing everything by themselves and just cant stand working in a team. Factors such as rasism, fears from meeting new people, fears from other people’s thoughts just stimulate them to hate teamwork more and more. And eventually they will start doing things that will slowly destroy company they are working for.

In conclusion I would like to say that multicultural teamwork is a key to success. The benefits you can gain from it are just amazing. No matter what the minuses of multicultural teamwork are, it will always bring benefits if group leaders know the right approach that would work on all group members.