Building a Global Team

OTMT 618.14MS

(Re) Building a Global Team

(1)  Assuming  that  Tariq  Kahn  takes   the  offered  position,  he  faces  many  human

resources, cultural, and related issues that he will need to address and resolve if he  is

to be successful. Please identify and briefly explain these issues

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Operating  margin  and  net  profit,  market  share  and employee  satisfaction  all

decreased a lot

Languages

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68 team members from 27 different countries, speak 18 different languages

Team  members  segregated  into  language  groups,  language  barriers  exist

among them and few communications with different language groups

➢    Team  member  don’t have  same  level of  fluency  or  comfort in  English,  so

some  of members  which  have  poor  English skills  have  few  problems and

perhaps don’t even understand the speakers in the meeting

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Members are from 4 different time zone and have different work week and holiday

Team members ranged in age from 22 to 61 years, and the average age is 39 years ,

there may be some gaps among them

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Three top leaders of the team can’t determine and reach a consensus on what the

problems  are,   for  example,  they   have  different  opinion   of  why  their   sales

decreased last year

Worldwide  sales  targets  down   into  regions,  then  regional  managers  further

divided the regional target among  constituent countries, however, the managers

refuse   and  shirk   responsibilities  to   take   the  challenges   and  set   easy   and

conservative  goals for  them  to  achieve, for  example,  the regional  manager  in

middle-east Asian  don’t want  to  take responsivity  of Saudi  Arabia which  is the

largest country in that region

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There are some communication problems and contradictions among the three top

team leaders, for example the poor preference last year is lack of communication

of the two leaders

There are no organization culture and cohesion in the team, , team members don’t

care about the company and don’t have a same goal and pursue, for example, the

team member don’t know the bad preference of the company last year and don’t

know what he works for

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Lars, one of the top  leaders of the team don’t respect the  culture difference and