How Could Antecedents to Project Collaborative Effectiveness Through Project War-Room Meetings, Develop Cohesion in Multicultural Teams: While Problem-Solving?

This study focused on using War-Room Meetings (WRM) as a vehicle to developing team cohesion in multicultural project teams in Oil and Gas civil, and marine infrastructure projects. Although the concept of collaboration and multicultural diversity is extensively viewed as organisational social structures, most theories of developing cohesion are sceptical about the social process within which it might occur. We explored the theory of combing daily WRM and problem-solving while strengthening the social-structures in diverse, multicultural-teams. We started by examining mainstream literature to develop conceptual theories. This study also used interviews and an Action Learning group to collect data and evaluate ideas into action. Our findings suggested, team building, problem-solving, multicultural-teams, language barriers, and networking could improve by using WRM. These concepts influenced ambidexterity which balances between exploitation and exploration; therefore, manipulating ideas and using flexibility to test a variety of shared beliefs.