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Scenarios: Select a scenario from the list below.
1. A project manager leading a culturally diverse project team in delivering a domestic project.
2. A project manager leading a project in another country that has a different culture from Australia
3. A project manager leading a global project with teams from multiple countries.

Questions: Select one of the above scenarios and use the following questions as guiding questions to develop your essay.

1. Why is managing cultural diversity important in contemporary project management?
2. How do project managers effectively lead multicultural project teams? Discuss how the cultural diversity of the project team/ project stakeholders could be integrated into the project planning, execution and monitoring and controlling phases.
3. How do project managers effectively manage conflicts in multicultural project teams?
4. What key advice would you give to a project manager who is managing a culturally diverse project team?

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Do not include conference papers.
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Case Example:
A project manager leading a project in another country that has a different culture from Australia.
1. Define the type of project management (International Project management)
2. Cultural diversity in international project management and why its management is important.
Achieving project goals, schedule, and budget while respecting the standards, policies, and culture of foreign country.
In international projects, the challenges are unique (absence from home and family, missed career opportunities, traveling, language barrier). Therefor, the success of such international projects is subjected to the right foreign cultural training of a right fit project manager.
Identify a country to strengthen your reflection (take help from textbook chapter 15 as it explains cultural difference among countries including China, United states, Saudi Arabia etc.)

Q1 Leading the culturally diverse Project Team.
- Discuss the opportunities and challenges faced by a team due to its cultural diversity.
- Understanding the basic political/legal, geographic, security, economic, and infrastructure factors that lead to cultural diversity in the team.
- Beside technical effort and costs, the project has to be carried out within the set environments boundaries of country's social customs, work practice, government control, and religious beliefs.
- Project manager role, strategies, and challenges in managing culturally diverse project.
- A project manager good at understanding technology might not be good at understanding people.

Q2 Cultural shock and how it can be managed.
- Pre-project training, international business studies, learning the language.
- different methods for coping with cultural shock.
- what type training is important for international project manager?
- Using Kluckhohn and Strobeck's cross-cultural framework to identify the variation in different cultural issues at foreign country.
- Depending on the length of the project, information-giving approach, affective approach or experiential approach can be used for managing the foreign projects.

Q2 Integration of cultural diversity in project, execution, monitoring and controlling phases.
- Understanding the basic political/legal, geographic, security, economic, and infrastructure factors that lead to cultural diversity and integrating them all stages of the project planning and execution. Project planning is most important phase for culturally diverse projects as it identifies the specific needs and expected outcomes from culturally diverse people.
- During monitoring and controlling international project manager has to honour the cultural diversity and make amendments where project is heading against the host country's cultural norms.

Q3 Conflict management in culturally diverse projects.
- Contradiction with the belief systems and social settings of a country can cause a conflict. International project manger should carry multiple skills including change management and conflict management.
- Managing the challenges (Coordination problems, loss of control, cultural conflicts, security issues and political fallout).
- Separating people from the problems, focusing on interest and not position, inventing options as per cultural norms, relying on objective criteria to overcome the conflicts.

Q4 What key advice would you give to a project manager who is managing a culturally diverse project team?

- Qualities of an effective project manager.

Support your arguments using additional references from literature.( google scholar, Web of science, ProQuest). Provide appropriate references and bibliography.

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