Since we are concerned here with understanding and defining not just teams but
teams that are diverse and multicultural, we need to take that into consideration in
our definition. Marquardt and Horvath (2001) define multicultural teams as taskoriented
groups comprising people of different cultural backgrounds. Following
Marquardt and Horvath (2001) and Bailey and Cohen (1997), we define multicultural
teams as a collection of individuals with different cultural backgrounds, who
are interdependent in their tasks, who share responsibility for outcomes, who see
themselves and are seen by others as an intact social entity embedded in one or
more larger social systems, and who manage their relationships across organizational
boundaries and beyond.