Article adressing the challenges of managing a team as an expat.
Teams with a different national and cultural background have the potential to create a wide range of interesting ideas, says Meir Shemla, researcher and Academic Director of the full-time MBA course at RSM, Erasmus University. But in practice, a diverse team can be quite hard to manage, he says.
According to Oz Butun, Director, Platform Architecture at Philips Innovation Service, doing the two-year Executive MBA at RSM, provides students with a unique opportunity to overcome these cultural differences, and even benefit from them.