Developing effective teams in global multidiscipline engineering and manufacturing organisations

In today’s competitive business environment most activities in global relationships (subsidiaries, outsourcing, joint ventures) are carried out by multi-cultural and multidisciplinary teams which may be collocated or distributed. The members of these teams comprise a variety of experts of diverse cultural, organizational, and professional backgrounds. Within the project lifetime they are connected together with time and money constraints for a specific period of time to accomplish certain distinct objectives. The aims of this paper are to report on findings from an extensive literature review regarding multi-cultural and multidiscipline team work and to provide a basis for discussion and analysis of challenges such teams experience. A case study is carried out in a global multidiscipline engineering organization to identify empirical evidence of potential challenges in projects carried out by multicultural and multidisciplinary collaborative teamwork.

This is a post-peer-review, pre-copyedit version of an paper published in Systems, Software and Services Process Improvement: 25th European Conference, EuroSPI 2018, Bilbao, Spain, September 5-7, 2018, Proceedings. The final authenticated version is available online at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-97925-0_48

Paper published as: Siakas K., Georgiadou E., Siakas D., Rahanu H. (2018) Developing Effective Teams in Global Multidiscipline Engineering and Manufacturing Organizations. In: Larrucea X., Santamaria I., O'Connor R., Messnarz R. (eds) Systems, Software and Services Process Improvement. EuroSPI 2018. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 896. Springer, Cham