Project management. Describe different aspects of your own

Project management. Describe different aspects of your own culture. Type of misunderstandings and conflicts that could arise if you were working with a multicultural team. Tips for working with multinational teams. PSLU’s multicultural academic environment. Positive and negative perceptions students from other cultures might have about the university’s corporate culture. Speak from your own experience. What’s your own impression of the university’s corporate culture? Would you like to improve it?

Definitions • Project – an important and carefully planned piece of work that will create sth new or improve a situation • Project manager – a person or organization responsible for a particular piece of work that will create sth new or improve a situation • Team – a group of people who work together to do a particular job • Project management • — the discipline of planning, organizing, securing and managing resources to achieve specific goals • — a methodical approach to planning and guiding project processes from start to finish.

Knowledge of Russian business culture help you to сo -o perate more effectively with Russian clients and colleagues. In Russian business culture respecting seniority is essential. In business meetings one should not do very much small talk, but rather go straight to the point. Still, it should be remembered that in Russian business culture personal and informal relationships are very important, so one should take part in discussing for example art, music, dance and literature.

Russia is a multinational country. And it will be good to know some aspects of multicultural team. Cultural awareness is important to help members of a multicultural team identify where things may be going wrong or how to best leverage their differences. Without some sort of formal cross-cultural awareness training, it is difficult for multicultural teams to identify areas that need attention.

Cultural differences manifest in many ways. Within a multicultural team, a person’s cultural background will impact how they act and behave. There will be differences in areas such as: — communication — attitude to towards conflict — approaches to task completion and decision making styles Unless people come to realize these differences between them through cultural awareness, problems can continue and even intensify.

PSLU — University of creative ideas. This is the center colors of languages and cultures, creative intellectual space, a place of creative innovation. The University conducts congresses «Peace in the North Caucasus, » «Days of the national languages and cultures» It promotes unity and friendship among young people of different nations, it teaches to have a sense of respect for elders, the desire for mutual aid, provides rich material for understanding the diversity of culture of the peoples of Russia.

Conclusion Build your cultural knowledge: Try and learn a bit more about other cultures and countries. Information is easily found on the internet and in books. You can also ask your colleagues. Start to build some sort of cultural awareness.