Exploring teamwork paradoxes challenging 21st-century cross-cultural conflict management in a multicultural organizational context
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12701633 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Yvonne Du Plessis (0000-0002-6900-1664, University of Pretoria, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2011 |
| Volume | 12 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 49-71 |
| Publication date | 2011-12-23 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | International Journal of Cross Cultural Management (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1470-5958 • E-ISSN: 1741-2838 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/1470595811413108 |
| OpenAlex | W2100296518 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 34 |
This paper focuses on cross-cultural conflict and its management in a multicultural work environment affected by teamwork paradoxes, as perceived and experienced by multicultural team members working in project and management teams. A mixed research methodology was applied, using a quantitative confirmation of teamwork paradoxes in multicultural organizational environments, followed by a qualitative interpretivist approach exploring the perceived and felt cross-cultural conflicts and its management within the teamwork paradox context. Eight multicultural teamwork paradoxes were confirmed by 107 respondents to a survey questionnaire. Next, semi-structured individual interviews were conducted with 33 participants exploring cross-cultural conflict and its management within the eight identified teamwork paradoxes. The qualitative thematic data analysis provided insightful information on cross-cultural conflict management in multicultural team paradoxes relevant to project and management teams in a multicultural South African context. The multicultural team paradoxes and their managerial implications are explained in terms of cross-cultural conflict management on multiple levels
Conflict management · Context (archaeology · Cultural diversity · Knowledge management · Multiculturalism · Pedagogy · Political science · Public relations · Qualitative research · Social science · Sociology · Teamwork · Thematic analysis · Computer Science · Conflict Management and Negotiation · Gender Diversity and Inequality · International Student and Expatriate Challenges · Psychology
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| Citations per year | 0.11 |
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| Citation span | 2017 - 2017 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |