Effective Management of Multi-Cultural Construction Project Teams Issues and Strategies for Improving Team Performance

The seminar paper provides a pragmatic perspective of the topic of effective management of multi- cultural construction project teams. The paper provides a detailed collated review of issues pertaining to multi- cultural construction project teams and the strategies that can be adopted to overcome those issues thereby improving the performance of the team in its entirety based on the findings of previous research. The paper has been structured in a manner that includes a brief introduction into the topic, definition of the term “Culture”, definition of a “multi-cultural” project team, importance of multi-cultural construction project teams, issues of multi-cultural construction project teams and finally, strategies to overcome the issues from previous research as well as novel concepts and tools that have proven to work in the global project management arena. The author anticipates that the content provided in this seminar paper shall be beneficial for effective decision making by organizational leadership to establish high performing construction project teams that acknowledge and respect cultural diversity whilst utilizing the benefits of cultural heterogeneity and mitigating the detrimental impacts of the same.