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Developing Cross-Cultural Skills of International Business Students: An Experiment
Developing Cross-Cultural Skills of International Business Students: An Experiment
- Source :
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Journal of Instructional Psychology . Jun 2004 31(2):160-166. - Publication Year :
- 2004
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Abstract
- Cross-cultural skills are a major criterion for success in the global business environment. For students pursuing careers in international business, this means learning to manage cultural difference on three levels: self, interpersonal, and organizational. This paper describes five related and synergistic exercises that give college students experience in dealing with and solving real-world problems in cross-cultural management on all three levels. Anecdotal evidence suggests the exercises are a highly successful method for developing the cross-cultural skills of students. To confirm the efficacy of this process, a pre-test post-test experiment was conducted with a treatment-group and control-groups. Results show that the treatment group was the only one to show a significant (at p less than 0.05) increase in intercultural sensitivity--a measure of cross-cultural skill. (Contains 1 table.)
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 0094-1956
- Volume :
- 31
- Issue :
- 2
- Database :
- ERIC
- Journal :
- Journal of Instructional Psychology
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- EJ774074
- Document Type :
- Journal Articles<br />Reports - Descriptive