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Your team will include a wide range of people in terms of age, experience, background, expectations, nationality and skills. To complicate matters further they will almost certainly be working under a range of different types of contract.

Consider two extremes:

Team member A	Team member B..
... is young and single, and comes from Western Europe.	... is middle aged, married with children and comes from the affected country
... is a on short term international contract for the initial emergency response which costs the organisation nearly ten times as much as a national colleague	... has a national contract. She has worked in development projects before and knows the area and people well.
... is only there for a short time, and a long way from family and friends, so she is prepared to work long hours without many days off.	... has family commitments and security concerns, and as a result she finds it hard to work very long hours, and needs regular days off to look after her family.
... had a liberal upbringing which allows her to speak her mind freely in meetings.	... comes from a culture where people do not resolve problems in public.
... believes firmly that respect has to be earned.	... comes from a culture where people are entitled to respect on the basis of their age and position
... is prepared to take risks to get things done and is impatient for results	... is naturally cautious and has seen the damage that rash decisions can cause
... has previous relief experience and sees this as another exiting and challenging assignment	... has herself been personally affected by the emergency and is gravely concerned about the future of her community
... already has plans to join her family's business back home, she might extend for a few months but not much longer.	... is committed to the organisation and hopes for a long term career.

Which is the better choice? See also diversity and equality.

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