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Facilitating Information Exchange in Intercultural Virtual Teams

Moderation von Wissensaustausch in interkulturellen virtuellen Teams
[journal article]

Balasubramanian, Vinita

Abstract

Though knowledge and information exchange are vital for the success of virtual intercultural teams, there is often an unarticulated assumption that it will developnaturally in the course of a collaboration. Data gathered from virtual German-Indian engineering teams indicates that variances in cultur... view more

Though knowledge and information exchange are vital for the success of virtual intercultural teams, there is often an unarticulated assumption that it will developnaturally in the course of a collaboration. Data gathered from virtual German-Indian engineering teams indicates that variances in cultural communication routines lead toknowledge / information withholding, whether intentional or accidental, and impair team functioning. Consequently, effective facilitation is needed to create and maintainreciprocal cognitive and socio-emotional information exchange. The biggest challenge in this venture is achieving the proper synthesis between the structures needed to provide stability and the agile, open-ended VOPA approach required in a VUCA environment.To this end, some of the methods available to promote knowledge exchange are reviewed for their benefits on both fronts.... view less


Obwohl der Wissensaustausch in virtuellen interkulturellen Teams von besonderer Wichtigkeit ist, wird oft angenommen, dass er im Verlauf der Zusammenarbeit von alleine entsteht. Die Forschung an deutsch-indischen virtuellen Teams zeigt, dass kulturell unterschiedliche Kommunikationsmuster zum Zurück... view more

Obwohl der Wissensaustausch in virtuellen interkulturellen Teams von besonderer Wichtigkeit ist, wird oft angenommen, dass er im Verlauf der Zusammenarbeit von alleine entsteht. Die Forschung an deutsch-indischen virtuellen Teams zeigt, dass kulturell unterschiedliche Kommunikationsmuster zum Zurückhalten von Informationen führen, sowohl beabsichtigt als auch unbeabsichtigt. Daher ist eine bewusste Strategie notwendig, um einen reziproken kognitiven und affektiven Informationsfluss zu etablieren und fortzusetzen. Die größte Herausforderung liegt darin, die Synthese zwischen stabilen Strukturen und der agilen, offenen Interaktion der VOPA-Vorgehensweise zu erreichen. Dazu werden einige der vorhandenen Methoden des Wissensaustauschs und ihre Beiträge zu Struktur / VOPA erörtert.... view less

Keywords
cooperation; virtualization; intercultural skills; communication behavior; confidence; working group

Classification
Social Psychology
Basic Research, General Concepts and History of the Science of Communication

Free Keywords
intercultural knowledge-exchange; information withholding; structure plus VOPA interaction; interkultureller Wissensaustausch; Zurückhalten von Informationen; Struktur mit VOPA Interaktion

Document language
English

Publication Year
2020

Page/Pages
p. 13-25

Journal
interculture journal: Online-Zeitschrift für interkulturelle Studien, 19 (2020) 33

Issue topic
Virtuelle Zusammenarbeit

ISSN
2196-9485

Status
Published Version; peer reviewed

Licence
Creative Commons - Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0


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