Intercultural competencies in the opinion of managers from the Podlasie region
Journal Title: International Journal of Contemporary Management - Year 2012, Vol 11, Issue 1
Abstract
The increasing size, complexity, and geographical reach of global firms continually raise the bar for effective culturally diverse workgroup performance. Culturally diverse teams provide the opportunity for a greater number of cross cultural interactions and present a number of benefits for teams including increasing innovation, creativity and problem solving capabilities. For managing cultural diversity intercultural competencies, such as dissimilarity openness, emotion management skills, intercultural communication competence, tolerance for ambiguity, cultural understanding, information processing skills and cultural management skills are required. Many companies which are situated in the Podlaskie voievodship (Eastern-North part of Poland), cooperate with Belorussian, Russian and Lithuanian firms. To be successful they need to develop intercultural competencies. In this paper the result of pilot research dedicated to those competencies conducted between young managers working in local companies are presented. They show how they assess the companies' and their own intercultural competencies.
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Barbara Mazur
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