When managing a project that is worked on by a cross-cultural team, keeping to a tight schedule can prove to be problematic. As an example, many studies have found that a major source of conflict between Millennial and Generation X employees are their very different cultural attitudes regarding what constitutes a workday.
Many of these hassles can be avoided by implementing certain parameters, such as a timeline for overall completion rather than a schedule the calls for the checking individual benchmarks.
Read the full article here: https://hbr.org/2016/06/4-ways-to-manage-deadlines-on-cross-cultural-teams