Intercultural Competences for Culturally Diverse Teams

Abstract

Cooperation can be hard both in the human and the animal world. A recent documentary on teamwork shows two chimpanzees who had to cooperate in order to get a banana.1 They were in separate but neighbouring enclosures. Outside were two tables, each with a banana on it. The chimpanzees could pull the tables towards themselves if each pulled on a rope attached to one of the tables. Only if they both pulled their own rope at the same time would both tables move, and would each chimpanzee get hold of a banana. They could do that.KeywordsTeam MemberTeam LeaderLeadership StyleTeam ProcessIntercultural CompetenceThese keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.