Cultural Intelligence Case Study
5. Describe how the promotion of CI can enable the organisation to grow and be sustainable in an aggressively competitive global marketplace.
As cultural intelligence is also referred to the person’s capability to adapt to cultural settings that are new or foreign and or unfamiliar settings that are characterized by cultural diversity and still be able to generate the right behavioural attitude that are adaptive and also show an understanding over the diversified culture. The promotion of cultural intelligence capacitates the organization to can become more competitive and enables the organization to can expand with easy. The ability of employees to can cope in unfamiliar setups that is attributable to cultural context. The organization …show more content…
Develop a practical, stepwise management plan that illustrates how CI can be promoted in the workplace.
6.1. Commit to boosting your own cultural competency (Liu, 2016)
The current environment dictate that the cross-cultural communication skills be considered as one of the cornerstone and the enabler to the successful promotion of cultural intelligence. Every employee should have a better understanding of the cultures of the colleagues so that they can be able to communicate with ease and be conscious about things that may affect their relation and turn it sour unnecessarily.
6.2. Observe diverse traditions, celebrations, and holidays from other cultures (Liu, 2016).
The organization should include the observation of traditions and heritages, celebrations and holidays from other cultures in their calendars. Many activities should be lined up on these days like celebrating the tradition and heritage. Competitions on the best traditional meals, best traditional dresser, best African story teller, best traditional dancers and employees should be afforded time to prepare such events. With these kinds of events, colleagues will be able to socialize and connect to one another on a personal level and they will also be able to acknowledge each other’s culture and the understanding of why other cultures do things the way they …show more content…
Christopher Earley and Elaine Mosakowski, 2004). The HR strategy need to be developed and priority should be given to those candidates who can naturally be able to interact with people from different cultures. This will be done with a view to enhance the possibilities of expansion so that the organization does not suffer or find it difficult to crack into the globalized environment. The organization needs to have an understanding of what the customer needs are and they should be in the position to deliver exactly that or beyond the customers’
As cultural intelligence is also referred to the person’s capability to adapt to cultural settings that are new or foreign and or unfamiliar settings that are characterized by cultural diversity and still be able to generate the right behavioural attitude that are adaptive and also show an understanding over the diversified culture. The promotion of cultural intelligence capacitates the organization to can become more competitive and enables the organization to can expand with easy. The ability of employees to can cope in unfamiliar setups that is attributable to cultural context. The organization …show more content…
Develop a practical, stepwise management plan that illustrates how CI can be promoted in the workplace.
6.1. Commit to boosting your own cultural competency (Liu, 2016)
The current environment dictate that the cross-cultural communication skills be considered as one of the cornerstone and the enabler to the successful promotion of cultural intelligence. Every employee should have a better understanding of the cultures of the colleagues so that they can be able to communicate with ease and be conscious about things that may affect their relation and turn it sour unnecessarily.
6.2. Observe diverse traditions, celebrations, and holidays from other cultures (Liu, 2016).
The organization should include the observation of traditions and heritages, celebrations and holidays from other cultures in their calendars. Many activities should be lined up on these days like celebrating the tradition and heritage. Competitions on the best traditional meals, best traditional dresser, best African story teller, best traditional dancers and employees should be afforded time to prepare such events. With these kinds of events, colleagues will be able to socialize and connect to one another on a personal level and they will also be able to acknowledge each other’s culture and the understanding of why other cultures do things the way they …show more content…
Christopher Earley and Elaine Mosakowski, 2004). The HR strategy need to be developed and priority should be given to those candidates who can naturally be able to interact with people from different cultures. This will be done with a view to enhance the possibilities of expansion so that the organization does not suffer or find it difficult to crack into the globalized environment. The organization needs to have an understanding of what the customer needs are and they should be in the position to deliver exactly that or beyond the customers’