You have worked extensively in global teams consisting of HR
and business leaders. In your experience has there been
employee engagement challenges arising due to differences
(real/perceived) in the business cultures? How did you
overcome these challenges?
One of the key challenges that will continue to
remain while working in a global environment is
that of differing culture, traditions,
communication systems and ideologies. The
effective manner to handle this is to be
empathetic towards differing cultures and
systems and help employees understand these
differences in a proactive manner. As a HR
partner, I have continuously believed in coaching
employees and helping them maneuver through
these different work cultures. It is important that
global organizations invest heavily in cross
cultural learnings and sharings across the groups.
Mentoring as a process helps immensely in this
“It is important that global
area.
organisations invest heavily
in cross cultural learnings
and sharings across the
groups”
n:gage | May 2017