2024 – Assignment 1 LASA 2 Developing and Managing Multi Cultural Teams As the diversity manager

Assignment 1: LASA 2 – Developing and Managing Multi-Cultural Teams

As the diversity manager of a global company, you have developed a deep appreciation for the importance of understanding multi-cultural teams in the workplace. However, you know that some of the managers struggle with developing and managing multicultural teams in your company. There seems to be a need for company-wide information and training on the topic of “Developing and Managing Multi-Cultural Teams.”

You decide to prepare a training handout for the next managers’ meeting, that emphasizes the following points:

• Dimensions of a multi-cultural team
• Discrimination laws and their impact on managing a multi-cultural team
• Affirmative action programs and their impact on managing a multi-cultural team
• Building an inclusive culture within the team
• Challenges of managing a multi-cultural team
• Recommendations for improving communications within a multi-cultural team
• Modeling and leading diversity acceptance and change

Prepare a six to eight-page Word document as a training handout for managers, addressing each of the points listed.  Include an executive summary and conclude by summarizing your handout by describing three important concepts you learned while researching this topic.

Use at least three resources in addition to your textbook to justify your responses. Apply current APA standards for writing style to your work. 

Use the following file naming convention: LastnameFirstInitial_M5_A1.doc. For example, if your name is John Smith, your document will be named SmithJ_M5_A1. doc.

By Monday, September 5, 2016, deliver your assignment to the M5: Assignment 1 Dropbox.

Assignment 1 Grading Criteria	Maximum Points
Executive summary clearly and concisely summarizes the primary themes of the training handout.	20
Dimensions of a multi-cultural team are accurately addressed in detail.	28
Discrimination laws and their impact on managing a multi-cultural team are accurately addressed in detail.	28
Affirmative action programs and their impact on managing a multi-cultural team are accurately addressed in detail.	28
Building an inclusive culture within the team is accurately addressed in detail.	24
Challenges of managing a multi-cultural team are accurately addressed in detail.	28
Recommendations for improving communications within a multi-cultural team are accurately addressed in detail.	28
Modeling and leading diversity acceptance and change is accurately addressed in detail.	24
Summary of three important concepts is addressed in detail.	28
Written Components: Style (8 points): Document is prepared as a training handout with the appropriate tone, audience, and word choice Organization  (16 points): Introduction, transitions, and conclusion Usage and mechanics (16 points ): Grammar, spelling, sentence structure APA elements (24 points): In text citations and the inclusion of at least three resources,  paraphrasing, and appropriate use of quotations and other elements of style	64
Total:	300