In a global market where international teams, initiatives, and joint
ventures are increasingly common, it is extremely important for people
to integrate themselves quickly in new cultures. Effective strategies
for selecting and training people on global perspectives are critical
for managing businesses.
Current theories in management and psychology do not provide adequate
frameworks to explain the successes or failures of people working and
managing in foreign cultures. In this book, the authors develop the idea
of cultural intelligence and examine its three essential facets:
cognition, the ability to develop patterns from cultural cues;
motivation, the desire and ability to engage others; and behavior, the
capability to act in accordance with cognition and motivation.
In their presentation of this new conceptual framework, the authors
provide a critical review of the existing literature. They explore the
fundamental nature of cultural intelligence and its relationship to
other frameworks of intelligence.