PMP · Question #940
A project manager forms a new virtual project team that will be leading the project subcontractors in various countries. The project manager notices that each of the team members comes from a…
The correct answer is C. Arrange a weekly virtual meeting to allow team members to exchange their cultures. To enhance cohesiveness in a diverse virtual team, the project manager should arrange regular virtual meetings focused on cultural exchange. This fosters mutual understanding and strengthens interpersonal bonds.
Question
A project manager forms a new virtual project team that will be leading the project subcontractors in various countries. The project manager notices that each of the team members comes from a different culture. Which action should the project manager take to increase team cohesiveness?
Options
- AExecute a rotating relocation, where team members spend a certain amount of time in each of the
- BEmpower the team and emphasize the project manager's trust in them.
- CArrange a weekly virtual meeting to allow team members to exchange their cultures.
- DRequire each team member to physically attend at least two meetings per year.
How the community answered
(26 responses)- A12% (3)
- B4% (1)
- C69% (18)
- D15% (4)
Why each option
To enhance cohesiveness in a diverse virtual team, the project manager should arrange regular virtual meetings focused on cultural exchange. This fosters mutual understanding and strengthens interpersonal bonds.
Executing a rotating relocation is a very costly and logistically complex solution that might not be practical or necessary for increasing team cohesiveness.
While empowering the team and expressing trust is important for team dynamics, it doesn't directly address the cultural differences or provide a mechanism for improving understanding and cohesiveness among diverse team members.
Arranging weekly virtual meetings specifically for cultural exchange provides a structured and recurring opportunity for team members to share their backgrounds, understand different perspectives, and build rapport in a low-pressure environment. This consistent interaction is crucial for fostering trust and cohesiveness in geographically dispersed and culturally diverse virtual teams.
Requiring physical attendance at two meetings per year is expensive, difficult for virtual international teams, and infrequent; it's less effective than regular virtual interactions for building ongoing cohesiveness.
Concept tested: Building cohesiveness in diverse virtual teams
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Community Discussion
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Zlatan X.Feb 24, 2026C is the correct answer here. The stem is testing cohesiveness across cultures in a virtual environment, and a weekly virtual meeting that lets members share cultural context directly builds shared understanding without forcing expensive or impractical relocations. A and D fail on feasibility for a dispersed subcontractor team, and B is a generic leadership move that does not specifically address the cultural diversity the question highlights. From a program perspective, if component teams lack cultural alignment early, integration points across workstreams degrade and benefits realization slips downstream.
Toby R.Feb 26, 2026Sat this one last month and C is right, but the real giveaway in the stem was "subcontractor team" since that kills A and D on cost control grounds, not just feasibility.
Yusuf A.Feb 18, 2026Saw this on my exam last month and picked C because it lines up with what my senior PM called "cultural icebreaker" meetings, where the team shares norms and backgrounds to build trust early. A and D are too expensive and impractical for a virtual team, and B sounds nice but doesn't directly address the cultural diversity angle.
Zlatan X.Feb 18, 2026C is right but frame it as the program manager building social capital across distributed component teams, not just an icebreaker, because that trust baseline pays off later when interdependencies get messy and you need teams collaborating without escalations.
Dervla O.Mar 10, 2026Leaned toward B first, but cultural exchange is the cohesiveness play here so C.
Ingrid P.Mar 11, 2026C is correct but worth a card only if you map the cohesion mechanisms to their policy triggers, otherwise you will conflate cultural exchange with plain community engagement on retake.
Toby R.Feb 6, 2026Confirmed C on my exam last month. B is the tempting one because empowering teams always sounds right, but the stem is specifically pointing at the cultural differences angle, so the answer has to address that directly.
Ingrid P.Mar 8, 2026B is the right call here. The PMBOK principle is that empowering a diverse team and showing trust builds cohesiveness directly, while the other options are logistical workarounds that do not address the underlying team dynamic.
Dervla O.Mar 11, 2026C is correct here because the stem is asking about a team that is already formed but underperforming, which points to establishing ground rules and shared norms as the intervention, not empowerment. B sounds nice in theory but skips past the fact that the scenario is asking for structure, not motivation.