Cross-Cultural Management : Organizational Cultures and Role of Project Leaders

Abstract

In cross-cultural projects, the mechanism to avoid misunderstandings due to the different organizational cultures is very important. The basic approach of the project leaders is to make orders or to explain in low-context simple languages, in this point of view. The strategy to make use of the commonly understandable knowledge area and the trans-organizational application of various project management tools (PM-tools) to facilitate the sharing of the project related knowledge among the organizations is important to support the leader's effort. To make effort repeatedly to share the understandings of the objects of the project, progress status information or the problems encountered among all the project organizations will leads to establish a new project-wide culture that enables high quality execution of the project.