Challenges of Multicultural Teams with Reference to IT Sectors

Abstract

In today’s scenario multicultural teams plays a vital role in the organization growth. These teams are composed with a different social background, gender, ethnic and culture takes place business environment becomes more challenging. These multicultural with diverse cultural backgrounds offer challenges to the organization. The purpose of this study is to identify the challenges in Communication issues, Behavioural issues and Group dynamics. The convenience and snowball sampling is adopted for this descriptive study. Sample of 156 project managers of different IT companies are considered for the study. The findings of the study reveal that among the three issues major challenges faced by multicultural teams is Group dynamic issues followed by Behavioural issues and communications issues. Among these three issues fluency, language, lack of cohesiveness, unawareness of the cultural differences, resistance to change are some of the major challenges.