Do you believe that different cultures/nationalities can successfully work together or do you believe that they slow down progress. Why?

Practical experiences have shown me clearly that it does not help much, at least in this part of the world (Doha). For me it slows down progress in many ways. I have seen it happening beofre my own eyes. There is silent and invisible disdain and repulsion flowing in the air.

Dear,

This is smart question . actually it is double edges sword , i do believe that a multi cultures \\ nationalities team lead organization to success but when ; when :

• When leader unite the team regardless on their nationalities and cultures.
• When leader sharing objectives with the team .
• When leader direct the team to achieve the goal together.
• When leader be fair.

So it depends on leader and organization's culture, how we formalizing it not who we recruiting , just like a kid what we will learn in childhood will be a behavior in maturity.

Brilliant question. Yes I do, however, we have to be careful in which country the mix is in. If it is in a country which has offered good money to bring you all together, I believe the interest may be more in watching the money grow, rather than working for the benefit of the company. Lets be fair here if the project or work has a timeline wouldn't it be good if that timeline could be stretched.

I have also found on my travels that where the money is not so important there is more of a togetherness within the workforce, whatever the mix and therefore the work tends to be more productive. But wherever you go there will always be the doers and the carriers, whatever nationality. Hope my thoughts help!

As long as you have a higher-level unifying/harmonizing corporate culture, it is OK to have multi-culture employees within the same organization/team strucuture  !