Effective Multicultural Teams: Theory and Practice

Claire B. Halverson, Ph.D. and A. Tirmizi

About Effective Multicultural Teams

The co-authors created this book when they found no relevant texts for a course in which they taught at a graduate program at the School for International Training (SIT) in Brattleboro, Vermont. They learned from the rich experiences of students from six continents who were or planned to be working in the public, educational, not-for-profit, and profit sectors and from their own consulting. They were enthusiastic about the potential of multicultural teams with their diversity to be more effective than those that are not diverse.

Relevant chapters explore the numerous factors impacting team effectiveness and the variety of forms of teams, cultural frameworks, the foundations of individual and social group behavior, stages of group development, team processes, roles of members and successful meetings, leadership, conflict, communication, and problem-solving/decision making.