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This 5-page paper examines, in the Kuwaiti context, the concept of team-building among corporations. Discussions center around the Middle Eastern corporate culture, and how teams can be and should be built in this particular structure. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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While there is plenty of literature available about team-building and its effectiveness among Western organizations (such as those in the United States, Canada
and the UK), very little can be learned when it comes to this topic among Middle East companies in general, or Kuwait in particular. The main reason for this, most
likely, is because until recently, Middle East corporations adhered to their own particular corporate code, which was likely highly patriarchal in nature.
To complete this paper, therefore, we have examined the types of factors necessary for promoting teamwork in the standard corporation, then have examined Islam among corporations in the Middle East.
When we were able to find the literature that pertained, we also focused on Kuwait as a centerpiece. Teamwork, in its most
basic form, relies on a climate of trust, as well as behavior that offers both trust and protection of the team members (Erdem and Ozen, 2003). Furthermore, the global climate,
along with global competition, mean that organizations wishing to compete need to implement "structures that require intensive interdependence among individuals, groups and work units" (Erdem and Ozen, 2003, 131). One
of the steps along these lines, according to some of the experts, involves social interaction between team members (Erdem and Ozen, 2003).
Furthermore, trust is defined as a partys willingness and ability to be open and vulnerable to another party (or person), with the understanding that the secondary party/person is a competent,
honest and reliable one (Erdem and Ozen, 2003). As mentioned earlier, among Western nations, this doesnt tend to be too much of
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