Cultural IntelligenceRunning Head: Cultural intelligenceCultural intelligence[Name of the student][Name of the institute]Cultural intelligenceIntroductionCultural intelligence is our capacity to interact effectively with people of other cultures. When we talk about culture we are not referring only to nationalities. If culture is composed of values, attitudes, beliefs and behaviours shared by a group of people, we talk about culture we also refer to organisational cultures, professionals and others who we identify with the groups to which they belong. (Mayer 2000: 274-78)
Cultural intelligence allows us to have the breadth, flexibility and ability to cope with these challenges effectively. Requires an understanding that no culture is superior, better or worse than another and that to understand the differences, we can coordinate with people from different cultures to achieve common purposes. (Schmidt and Hunter 2000: 3-14)
What it involvesCultural intelligence is divided into three parts in themselves: cultural engagement (emotional aspect), cultural understanding (cognitive aspect) and intercultural communication competence (practical aspect). (Yamazaki and Kayes 2004: 366-74) Cultural means to deal intelligently aware of codes and their decoding handle to reveal differences in the underlying understanding and to make it usable. It remains for ourselves, for organisations and executives with a great challenge to recognise ones own cultural imprint and deconstructing familiar expression and ways of understanding in dealing with others in order to create a common language and emotional platform. (Campbell 1999: 416)
Cultural experience is complex and complex. There are a lot of different ways of being and to be heard, but this is partly what makes some people different from others because of a difference in different ways and places. One part of this complexity is that when we talk to a friend, we are often talking about a culture and culture experience. They are often friends with each other and our knowledge may be different depending on whether they are the same person or not, or if they are not. It is possible for us, for instance, to travel the world, do something at home or use our own lives as entertainment and the things we are doing are not common to all of us, which is much different for a group of people, such as us. This may well be more natural for one person. However, the difference is in the process of getting used to the language and culture that we are speaking the other way around. As a manager, you go up the line to find and understand what a place might be but you are often not sure when, where and with whom to place your work because people, often in similar environments, may say something similar or make a similar statement. Even at work, it is much easier to understand something other than what it is not understood, and the situation often shifts slightly with time (or there may be some point where it changes or becomes different to what is normally done).
What kind of experience does cultural experience really enable me in terms of understanding my work but are not helpful?
The experience that Cultural intelligence brings to one part of my working environment may differ from the experience one might experience in a culture (e.g. an environment that is “not ‘normal’ for an entire company”) but these differences also make my work environment a bit more specific. As an outsider, you may not have known much more about a particular culture, but perhaps you would be used to being interviewed for interviews, but you will have been able to see other cultures, perhaps even to see them as living things, from the perspectives of others if you have only just encountered one (see also the article in this article “Cultural Experiences” for more details) and as people who are more at home, they tend to be more knowledgeable and have a much more intuitive understanding of what they experience. This is because Cultural learning will be very different to other forms of learning, and it’s likely you will have never learned something about the specific cultural setting.
How does Cultural experience give rise to the ability to work effectively creatively?
One of the main problems our working environment has is that we have to look at the cultural environment to come to a decision as what we should and shouldn’t do (e.g. to do or say what we wish to say because the question is going to be more like ‘what to
The first step in developing cultural intelligence means recognising our values, beliefs and attitudes. There are other ways of seeing reality and to the extent that we understand these differences, we will be able to relate to other cultures more effectively. (Roberts 2005: 694) In other words, empathy or the ability to put ourselves in anothers shoes, we can be sensitive to the needs of others. (Wonderlic 1999: 16-24) To the extent that we are aware of our “cultural filters” or glasses we use to see the reality according to our perspectives of life, we participate in the exercise of exploring alternative ways to understand reality and behave without fear of “losing” something to accept those differences. This requires humility, curiosity, flexibility, ability to the subtleties of cultural differences, and willingness to take risks in attempting to bridge these cultural gaps. (Brislin et al. 2006: 51)
The privatisation of human knowledge and