Reflection Report

Outline and Requirements

Objective: Analyze and reflect on the influence of cultural diversity on team dynamics and challenges, employing a structured reflective model to develop an action plan for future collaborative projects.

Description: This reflective assessment is related to your experience of working on a project with a culturally diverse team. In this assessment, you are expected to reflect on an instance(s) in which your project team experienced a challenge(s). What was the nature of these challenge(s)? In what ways, if any, were these challenge(s) because of cross-cultural influences? How were these challenges managed? What is your action plan for managing such challenges better in future? If the team did not experience any challenges, what factor(s) explain such a process?

You are expected to write the reflection essay (word count 1200 - 1400 words, excluding the references) using the DIEP (Description, Interpretation, Evaluation, Plan) reflection model OR Ryan and Ryan's (2015) 4R Model (Reporting, Relating, Reasoning and Reconstructing). You are expected to follow the structure of your chosen reflection model with distinct headings in your essay.

Please see below, and make sure that you connect and analyze your experiences using one or more concepts.

Concepts:

• Introduction to Management across cultures
• Global Managers in a changing world
• Cultural environments
• Theoretical Frameworks: Hofstede and Trompenaars
• Communicating across cultures
• Leading global organisations
• Managing ethical conflicts

To support your analysis; use 3 scholarly sources, two of them may be the following textbooks.

Textbooks:

1) Steers, RM. & Osland JS. (2020) Management Across Cultures - Challenges, Strategies, and Skills. Fourth edition, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.

2) Deresky, H 2016. International Management: Managing Across Borders and Cultures, Text and Cases, Global 9th Edition, Pearson Education Limited, ProQuest Ebook Central (Link for this textbook: https://elibrary.gemzplatform.com/management-across-cultures-challenges-strategies-and-skills/)

Criteria:

Problem Identification & description Depth of Reflection Use of scholarly sources Improvement / Learning Plan Writing & Referencing

There is a strong policy on plagiarism.

The use of any generative AI-based tools for any task related to this assessment is strictly prohibited. Any such cases will be reported for academic misconduct.

Use proper in-text referencing and provide a reference list following Harvard referencing system.

Turnitin will be used for checking similarity.

Those who fail to acknowledge sources of information correctly may be charged with plagiarism. 'Forgetting' or ignorance of correct acknowledgement practices are not acceptable as explanations for failing to acknowledge sources correctly.