1. Introduction to the Topic:
Individuals seldom work in loneliness from other. Teams are a trait of all societal situations and roughly everyone in a society will be member of one or more groups. One might think that the formation of team is simply about choosing to work with some of your friends. However, professional and well-functioning team do not just structure out of blue, it take time to achieve the desired result and contribute to the attainment of organizational goals. In this paper we examine various aspect relating multi-cultural/multi-national teams. We will then focus our efforts on exploring various salient features of multi-national teams. We will critically evaluate the various benefits of multi-cultural teams and the various problems that are encounter by organization practicing international team concept.
2. What is an International team?
According to Fink et al international teams are “implemented to constitute to the performance of an organization if the organization with its complex and sometimes rigid structure is not able to achieve this task” (Fink, Neyer, Klling, & Meierewert, 2004). Multi-national/multi-cultural teams are composed of people who belongs to different countries, regions, have different culture, norms, values, tradition, language who unite together in order to achieve a common objectives. Due to the increased popularity of these teams, organizations around the world using the concepts of international teams and as a result a universal culture is shaping with the passage of time that has common universal values, norms of behavior, culture, attitude and perceptions, stereotypes, personality traits and alike.
However the formation of this universal culture is in its introductory stage and most of the organizations practicing the international team concept are yet experience the concept of international culture and other