Heterogeneous and Homogeneous Management Teams

This paper focuses on multicultural senior management teams and homogeneous teams of locally selected senior executives. The author starts with brief descriptions of global companies, the responsibilities of senior managers, and international companies’ goals. Through a literature review, the author identifies and employs the impacts of teams’ heterogeneity and homogeneity, focusing on the cultural backgrounds of teams’ members to appraise the advantages global companies could gain from multicultural senior management teams and homogeneous teams of senior executives selected locally.