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The global business environment demands high professional expertise and understanding of cultural diversity. Organizational researchers who recognize the diverse nature of the workforce have increasingly focused on examination of work teams with multicultural members (Jackson et al., 1995;Lawrence, 1997;Snow et al., 1996). They have argued that workforce diversity can improve team performance, and hence advance organizational efficiency and effectiveness (Cox, 1993;Kirchmeyer and McLellan, 1991;Tung, 1993). To work effectively with diverse people, multicultural team members ABSTRACT Starting with the hypothesis that cross cultural communication competence affects the performance of multicultural teams, we employed the Cross Cultural Communication Competence Model to compare American and Russian managers working in multicultural teams. We collected data from 124 upper and middle managers in the United States and the Russian Federation by administering the cross cultural communication competence and the high-performance team questionnaires. Drawing from proven conceptual cultural orientations suggested by Hall, Hofstede, and Javidan and House, we examined how national culture affects team members' perceptions of cross cultural communication competence. The confirmed hypothesized relationship and salient effects of national culture on cross cultural communication competence led to theoretical and practical implications for multicultural organizational settings.KEY WORDS • American and Russian Managers • cross cultural communication competence • multicultural team performance

Single d-metal atoms on oxygen defects F(s) and F(s+) of the MgO(001) surface were studied theoretically. We employed an accurate density functional method combined with cluster models, embedded in an elastic polarizable environment, and we applied two gradient-corrected exchange-correlation functionals. In this way, we quantified how 17 metal atoms from groups 6-11 of the periodic table (Cu, Ag, Au; Ni, Pd, Pt; Co, Rh, Ir; Fe, Ru, Os; Mn, Re; and Cr, Mo, W) interact with terrace sites of MgO. We found bonding with F(s) and F(s+) defects to be in general stronger than that with O2- sites, except for Mn-, Re-, and Fe/F(s) complexes. In M/F(s) systems, electron density is accumulated on the metal center in a notable fashion. The binding energy on both kinds of O defects increases from 3d- to 4d- to 5d-atoms of a given group, at variance with the binding energy trend established earlier for the M/O2- complexes, 4d < 3d < 5d. Regarding the evolution of the binding energy along a period, group 7 atoms are slightly destabilized compared to their group 6 congeners in both the F(s) and F(s+) complexes; for later transition elements, the binding energy increases gradually up to group 10 and finally decreases again in group 11, most strongly on the F(s) site. This trend is governed by the negative charge on the adsorbed atoms. We discuss implications for an experimental detection of metal atoms on oxide supports based on computed core-level energies.