Cultural Competence

Cultural Competence was a topic of discussion in the magazine  Strategic Diversity & Inclusion Management published the article co-authored by Mercedes Martin & Billy Vaughn in 2007 where “Cultural competence refers to an ability to interact effectively with people of different cultures. Cultural competence comprises four components: (a) Awareness of one’s own cultural worldview, (b) Attitude towards cultural differences, ...

Multicultural Project Teams: How to Manage de “Multi” Factor

I have talked about how the “multi” factor, Multicultural and Multigenerational, plays an important role in projects and how project managers must be prepared to address team issues related to this phenomenon. As project managers in a global environment, we are now more often expected to lead multi-regional projects. This adds the multicultural to the ...