Intercultural Competence Evaluation And Development

Read Mendenhall et.al.

Read personal survey report thoroughly. Reflect on accurateness/fit of the results.

Discuss strengths and how you might build upon your intercultural competence. In addition, highlight one area and make suggestions for development.

Discuss the implications for developing intercultural competence.

Continuous learning subscales

The aspect of intercultural effectiveness and strengthening of inter-community understanding is growing day by day with the improvement in the role of managers to manage and develop business organisation work. Achievement of work analysis and communication through the members of the organisation is an effective manner in actually portraying the intercultural concept. Most amazingly intercultural and cross cultural development has led to the possibility of an organisational welfare. Important information that is actually determined by the factors of interpersonal aspect have been properly evaluated in the article presented by Mendenhall et. al. The specification of the content and the effectiveness scale, has been well evaluated by them in their article.  By providing of personal survey skills, there has been enough work to ensure the effectiveness in cross cultural development. The authors have well articulated the work development in importance of effective cross cultural work management.

The personal survey presented in the article by the above-mentioned authors, has aspects related to continuous learning. The reliability is presented at 0.85 which is high and better (Nesdale, de Vries Robbé & Van Oudenhoven, 2012). The reliability for self-awareness as experienced by the personal survey is 0.76, which is an important aspect for managing and maintaining intercultural effectiveness. When considering the exploration it is observed that the reliability and up to 0.82 which is clearly positive and must be considered as one of the important aspects of the intercultural operation. Open mind activities among the people are also presented with the personal survey. It is the prime difference that avoids people from stereotyping the culture of an organisation. Exploration justifies the openness of a person who pursues to enable ideas and values around the organisation creating knowledge of curiosity and inner desire. The consideration of value is around 0.82, which well deserves in terms of understanding its intercultural values.

The personal survey also evaluates the important aspect of interpersonal engagement under subscales. The interpersonal engagement is actually evaluated through Global mindset and relationship interest. The above-mentioned authors in their article have clearly justified the meaning of global mindset. In the article, they have clearly provided information with measuring unit to understand the interest upon culture, outlet course and other information of surrounding development. The personal survey evaluates that the value of global mindset is reliable at 0.84 that is quite energetic to see and to understand its knowledge in pursuing surrounding information in an interesting manner. In more about relationship Interest the authors in their article have justified in the simplest form available. According to them the information related to relationship interest is the degree that ensures and evaluates the desire of a person or the willingness of a person to maintain and initiate a relationship with people from different caste, culture and creed. The importance of relationship interest is higher than the Global mindset because people and Organisation need to be clear and transparent about their views with the people around them. Having transparency is the very first option to be availed and then there can be a global outreach through the evaluation of global mindset. The personal survey with value for relationship interest shows 0.80 which is quite worthy enough to be put forward (Behrnd & Porzelt, 2012).

Interpersonal engagement subscale

Ongoing forward with the aspect of hardiness which is important in consideration of working effectively with culturally different aspect in an organisation be observed in the article presented by the author that there is an evaluation of positive regard and emotional resilience. The authors in the article clearly justify the view regarding other cultures in an organisation in the most positive manner which allows one to understand and respect every individual. The concept of positivity regards the likeliness to make sure that the world around them is not stereotyping (Kilgo, Sheets & Pascarella, 2015). The evaluation of positive regard is also in terms of showing less Temptation towards getting frustrated. Frustration decreases the positive regard that an employee or a person must have in consideration of having a peaceful and harmonious organisational culture. In response to the personal survey presented in the article provided by the authors mentioned above, the positive regard is valued at a reliability point of 0.79. On discussing the emotional resilience which justifies the situation where a person has the strength in emotional terms to cope with challenges that we face in an organisation due to a cross-cultural aspect. The managing aspect of evaluation of Emotional resilience in the article presented by the author has also worked upon deployment in global competencies. The personal result through survey has evaluated positively and is justifiable, through information regarding emotional resilience at value of 0.81. Value related to emotional resilience in 0.81 clearly enables us to understand that the hardiness regarding positive regard and emotional resilience work for better mental harmony. It helps to create an important aspect in considering intercultural relationship at a very best position (Chiu, Lonner, Matsumoto & Ward, 2013).

Ongoing through every aspect presented by the authors mentioned above in the article we have come to the conclusion and proper understanding of the situation that self-evaluation in terms of intercultural effectiveness is the most important factor. With proper intercultural competence evaluation, there can be proper diagnostic of personal strength and weakness which would be verifiable in terms of having proper steps towards Recommendation. In determining the emotional resilience as the important aspects for intercultural bonding in an organisation, one must be clear about their views and thought and be open enough to invite and enable other to speak. With proper emotional resilience, there can be a differentiation between professionalism and personal aspects which will enable in long-term development (Bücker, Furrer, Poutsma & Buyens, 2014).

Hardiness subscales

Thirst for Knowledge: In order to work in a multicultural environment, there needs to be a thirst for learning. A person cannot show arrogance and imply that he or she knows it all and won't even try to learn from a cross cultural environment, the situation won't work out and failure is in unavoidable. To succeed in a multicultural environment a person should broaden his or her horizon and absorb knowledge from every direction possible (Hammer, 2015). There is also the need for cooperating with crosscultural colleagues in order to reduce blind spots. Socializing is a only way of eliminating any kind of cultural bias that may be resent.

Sense of Humbleness. When working in a diverse community one needs to have a sense of humbleness. Arrogance always lead to failure. one cannot simply function upon the belief that he or she is the only one who organise everything (Holliday, 2016)can note needs to be give and take policy that needs to be employed by a person in there day to day social interactions inside the organisation. In an organisation one cannot simply assume that they are the only person capable of telling everyone what to do and what not to. Executive decision making needs to be a two way street in order to achieve success in a multicultural environment.

Common Sense:  To succeed in a cross cultural environment a person needs to identify common ground with their colleagues. This is necessary in order to achieve a basic understanding of the habits and traditions of each other and function in a better manner for the progress of the organisation (Barrett, Huber, & Reynolds, 2014). The common ground that needs to achieve, should be rooted in solid facts. Cross cultural commonality will ease up the decision making process by providing context to everyone's thought processing capacities.

The expatriate adjustment competency is an important trait that needs to present in every employee that is working in a cross-cultural environment and has been identified by both Mendenhall et al and Ghosn. An extrapatriat cannot be arrogant and cannot hold any kind of bias for his or her fellow colleagues and vice versa. There should be give and take attitude between the two cultures and level of basic understanding and respect for each other's culture

The the continuous learning competencies have been identified by Mendenhall et al is also similar to the point of view of Ghosn. The ability of a person to adapt and understand the news of the new work environment by absorbing knowledge continuously has been deemed necessary by both Mendenhall et al and Ghoshn. There should count continuous and simultaneous exchange of information and cultural affiliation between the different cultures that will be present in the environment (Leung, Ang & Tan, 2014). An employee needs to show eagerness to become part of a group that may have its differences but these difference should ultimately be used to help the organisation function better.

List of Competencies Mentioned by Carlos Ghosn

Interpersonal engagement that has been identified by Mendenhall et a has also been discussed by Ghosn. The initiative to find common ground when working with other cultures needs to be shown by every employee. Socializing with colleagues from different cultures will eliminate any kind of bias present and employees can also identify common goals and objectives that will form a bond between the two cultures (Jin, 2015). With all its differences that are present common goals will improve overall productivity as employees regardless of their cultural context will strive to achieve them.

Interpersonal closeness is referred to as a set of behavioural, cognitive and affective skills that can lead to an effective and appropriate means of communication between people of different cultures. To achieve intercultural competency there needs to be mindfulness, cognitive flexibility, tolerance, ambiguity, behavioural flexibility and cross-cultural empathy. A person needs to be aware of the development of a communication gap and identify its source before mitigating the issue. The person should also have the capacity to adapt to new information that may lead to a significant change in his or her way of thinking (Mascadri, J., Brownlee, Walker & Alford, 2017). There should be a sense of tolerance and ambiguity in the group that will ensure that the transfer of information occurs with ease. A person should accept new norms and adapt to them. It does not necessarily mean that the person should let go of his or her previous beliefs but assimilate them with new changes. For all this to be achieved the person should show empathy to the different cultures present in the environment. This will result in an intercultural bonding that will help any multinational or multicultural organization to progress efficiency without any complications.

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