Describe how the cultural composition of work groups affects the way they function.

Question

What will be an ideal response?

Answer 1

The cultural backgrounds of a work group’s members affect the way they function through three
general types of mechanisms:
? Cultural norms: the orientations of the specific cultures represented in the group toward the
functioning of groups
? Cultural diversity: the number of different cultures represented in the group
? Relative cultural distance: the extent to which group members are culturally different from each
other
These mechanisms are interrelated, but each affects the way groups operate in different ways.