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Cultural Intelligence: A Review and New Research Avenues

International Journal of Management Reviews, 2016

Cultural intelligence (CQ), an individual's capability to function and manage effectively in culturally diverse situations and settings, has become the focus of a vibrant scholarly conversation and a flourishing area of multidisciplinary research. Since the introduction of the concept in 2002, substantial research has been conducted concerning its definition, the validation of its measurement, and the examination of its development and predictive capabilities. The present paper systematically reviews 73 conceptual and empirical articles published on CQ from 2002 to 2015 in management and international business journals as well as in education and psychology. The authors discuss two distinct conceptualizations of CQ, developments within the conceptual research, and opportunities for further theorizing. They also cluster the empirical studies based on how CQ was used and identify patterns, achievements and challenges within the literature. Finally, based on their analysis, they id...

Cultural Intelligence: A Review Perspective for Business Administration

2019

This work aims to review the existing publications on cultural intelligence (CQ), presenting what has been discussed and discovered on the subject, the measurements as well as the methods to improve it. A business conceptual framework for the business field is suggested which provides a basis for theory development and debate. Finally, some insights will be highlighted, which can propel the readers into future research. A search was performed on papers selected from the Science Direct database, which houses the empirical studies in the business management field. Sixteen articles were studied in detail. The relationships between skills of using CQ with expatriation or international cultural adjustment were found to be the most investigated themes in the business arena. Most of them revealed the existence of a positive association between the expatriate performance and crosscultural adaptation. The most used instrument used to measure CQ was the CQ Scale, a scale with psychological or...

A Literature Review of Cultural Intelligence

Research Review Journals, 2018

Organizations are getting transformed into international organizations due to developments taking place in the area of leadership, technology, business models and the composition of the workforce. Cultural Intelligence has become the key driver to understand, adapt and perform in an international arena. Cultural intelligence gives an insight on understanding why some of the individuals are able to cope and succeed in a diverse environment than others. There are various studies been undertaken to know the unprecedented impact of CQ on the global organizations. This paper aims to provide an extensive review of the literature on CQ. For a better understanding, the review has been divided into two sections based on two approaches i.e. definition and variables. Further the division into two sections(definition and variables undertaken) has helped to magnify the growing importance of the concept of CQ. In the first section a snapshot of existing literature covering various definitions related to CQ and its dimensions has been dealt with. Second section discusses the variables chosen by various scholars to study CQ along with the methodology adopted to analyze the relationship of CQ with other constructs.

Trends in Cultural Intelligence Research in the Context of Intercultural Management

E+M Ekonomie a Management, 2021

Cultural intelligence (CQ), expressing a capacity to effectively function in a cultural or culturally diverse environment (professional and otherwise), has great importance not only for the success of individuals who operate professionally in a intercultural environment, but also for the competitiveness of companies or organizations operating in international markets. For this reason research about CQ abroad is given the high level of attention, however this is not the case in the Czech Republic. This review uses the relatively new method of systematic quantitative literature review to provide a detailed mapping of cultural intelligence research in the years 2015–2019. The results of the analysis indicate that CQ is a global multidisciplinary phenomenon that has become established in intercultural management as a compelling area of research. The concept of CQ is well conceptualized and operationalized; the research at present is focused on the known relationships of new mediators or...

A FRAMEWORK OF CULTURAL INTELLIGENCE IN CONTEXT TO LEADERS, TEAMS & ORGANIZATIONS

Management Dynamics, 2017

Rapid globalization has led to richness in diversity of workforce in today's organization. Borderless economy has resulted in imparting international experience and exposure to the workforce further enabling them to handle international projects or assignments effectively. There is an essence of competent Leaders who can lead such diverse teams to drive the organization towards growth with varying environment. In this paper, an attempt has been made to develop a conceptual model based on the challenging issue of whether today's organization be called a culturally intelligent organization. This is done by building and integrating various constructs to study the relationship between Leader CQ, Team CQ and Organization CQ. This paper also gives an overview of the existing concepts related to it. The paper further discusses the variables and sub variables in detail which can provide a boost to the performance of managers as well as the teams in international arena.

CULTURAL INTELLIGENCE AS AN EFFECTIVE CROSS-CULTURAL COMPETENCY: A LITERATURE

Cultural Intelligence helps business-people everywhere to become more effective in making decisions, communicating and negotiating across cultures, leading and motivating others who are culturally different, and managing their careers. Organisation’s need to focus on cultural diversity and look for ways to become totally inclusive organisation as managing diversity is the key component of effective people management, which improves workplace productivity. Organisations must develop a new breed of managers, who can see beyond surface level cultural