Core Competencies of an Effective Cross-Cultural Manager Cross-cultural management broadly involves handling workforce teams comprised of people of diverse backgrounds. Though usually considered ethnocentric, as we have discovered, one's "culture" is an amalgamation of the individuals, groups, environments and experiences that have shaped thoughts, perceptions, values, and beliefs. To manage diversity, organizations take action through formal and informal structures that are designed to create greater inclusion of employees. This effort includes implementation of deliberate policies and programs that support an inclusive workplace strategy. In addition, managers and leaders of diverse teams must be developed to be culturally competent as well as educated on laws and precedents related to workplace discrimination and appropriateness. Based on what you have learned thus far in the course, What do you believe to be the three essential core competencies of an effective cross-cultural manager in today's global environment? To receive full credit, your post must be thorough (no less than 300 words), citations should be included when appropriate, and responses to at least two of your classmates are necessary. Post directly into the forum. Response two classmate： 1. From my own perspective, communication skills, leadership style and flexibility are three essential core competencies that lead cross-cultural manager successfully in today's global environment. Being to communicate and work with people across cultures is becoming more important all the time, since Communication skills are very important, building connections with people, expressing yourself and understanding the views of multiple audiences. When a cross-cultural manger negotiate with business partners in different culture , it will be helpful to know what kind of language people are speaking and how's their in advance. communication style. So, most of successful cases are based on effective communication. Approaches to leadership vary across cultures. cross-cultural manager today not only need to know how to inspire and lead people from a range of different cultures, they also need to create ways of leading people with very different backgrounds simultaneously. Moreover, today’s leadership challenge is to design innovative approaches that simultaneously create successful companies and successful societies. No matter what different culture plays a role, people more care about how can manager’ leadership benefit the organization. When manger have a corporation with others, the strong leadership can attract others because of excellent personal ability, outstanding achievements which can convince people and get support and high level of emotional intelligence, self-controlled, calm and patient in extreme pressing and tense situations. Flexibility means being willing to change action, individual's role, timelines and attitudes. As a manager, it is important to adapt our plans and a.

1. Core Competencies of an Effective Cross-Cultural Manager
Cross-cultural management broadly involves handling
workforce teams comprised of people of diverse backgrounds.
Though usually considered ethnocentric, as we have discovered,
one's "culture" is an amalgamation of the individuals, groups,
environments and experiences that have shaped thoughts,
perceptions, values, and beliefs. To manage diversity,
organizations take action through formal and informal structures
that are designed to create greater inclusion of employees. This
effort includes implementation of deliberate policies and
programs that support an inclusive workplace strategy. In
addition, managers and leaders of diverse teams must be
developed to be culturally competent as well as educated on
laws and precedents related to workplace discrimination and
appropriateness.
Based on what you have learned thus far in the course,
What do you believe to be the three essential core competencies
of an effective cross-cultural manager in today's global
environment?
To receive full credit, your post must be thorough (no less than
300 words), citations should be included when appropriate, and
responses to at least two of your classmates are necessary. Post
directly into the forum.
Response two classmate：
1. From my own perspective, communication skills, leadership
style and flexibility are three essential core competencies that
lead cross-cultural manager successfully in today's global
environment. Being to communicate and work with people
across cultures is becoming more important all the time, since
Communication skills are very important, building connections
with people, expressing yourself and understanding the views of
multiple audiences. When a cross-cultural manger negotiate

2. with business partners in different culture , it will be helpful to
know what kind of language people are speaking and how's their
in advance. communication style. So, most of successful cases
are based on effective communication. Approaches to leadership
vary across cultures. cross-cultural manager today not only
need to know how to inspire and lead people from a range of
different cultures, they also need to create ways of leading
people with very different backgrounds simultaneously.
Moreover, today’s leadership challenge is to design innovative
approaches that simultaneously create successful companies and
successful societies. No matter what different culture plays a
role, people more care about how can manager’ leadership
benefit the organization. When manger have a corporation with
others, the strong leadership can attract others because of
excellent personal ability, outstanding achievements which can
convince people and get support and high level of emotional
intelligence, self-controlled, calm and patient in extreme
pressing and tense situations. Flexibility means being willing to
change action, individual's role, timelines and attitudes. As a
manager, it is important to adapt our plans and actions
accordingly, learning new ways of doing things and building
relationships strong enough to get the cultural assistance needed
to collectively achieve the goals and objectives set before us
each day; it is important to know relationship take priority over
time in some cultures, and when we from a time-based culture
enter these relationship-based cultures, we must be ready and
willing to adjust our attitudes regarding time; its helpful to
aware of that good attitude goes a long way in building
friendships and in respecting the leadership under which the
cross-cultural worker has been placed.
2. As employees in modern multinational enterprises are with
various cultural backgrounds, they tend to have different values
and customs. In this regard, for cross-cultural managers, they
will be required to respect different perspectives and cultures.
In order to remain effective under the diverse workspace, the
managers have to be aware to their employees who are

3. significantly different in terms of cultures. This not only
facilitates communication with diverse employees, but is needed
in terms of politics of the organization. In this regard, cross-
cultural managers are supposed to first have good cross-cultural
communication skills. When establishing an organizational
culture, managers are supposed to use neutral discourse in
describing cultures as well as try their best to eliminate cultural
bias, in order to create a good working atmosphere. Secondly,
cross-cultural managers need to be able to tolerate other
cultures. In multinationals, employees often come from
different cultures. Based on this factor, the cross-cultural
managers are supposed to learn about tolerating different
cultures and solve the cultural conflicts. To improve their
ability to tolerate other cultures, the cross-cultural managers
need to be empathetic. If they have high opinions of their
cultural value systems, as well as insist on being self-centered
without considering others, this would inevitably result in
unexpected outcomes. After all, mutual respects are supposed to
be the most important foundation of management and the
premise of resolving cultural conflicts under the diverse
workspace. Finally, cross-cultural managers need to be able to
focus on details. For managers to get a well understanding of
different cultures, and have the consciousness of tolerance and
respect is not enough, managers should have a well
understanding of other cultures, which helps managers can find
more opportunities in a diverse environment, and contribute to
its core values in the organizations on the basis of establishing
a win-win culture and integrate different cultures to meet the
requirements of localization management.