TEACHING CULTURAL COMPETENCE: WHAT MULTICULTURAL ...

TEACHING CULTURALCOMPETENCE:WHATMULTICULTURAL MANAGEMENTCOURSESCAN LEARN FROMDIVERSITYMary Lou EganMarc Bendick, and Egan Economic Consultants, 2007 Bendick and Egan Economic Consultants, Westover Place NWWashington, DC 20016(202) CULTURAL COMPETENCE: WHATMULTICULTURAL MANAGEMENTCOURSESCAN LEARNFROM DIVERSITYIn today s global economy,multiculturalmanagementiswidely taught inAmericanBBA and MBA , these courses oftenencouragefundamental misunderstandings of when, how, andhow muchculture aboutnational CULTURAL differencesin ways whichencourage stereotyping and ,thesecoursesneed todevelopmanagers CULTURAL competence--critical thinkingskillstoanalyzeandworkwithcultur allycomplexindividualsinculturally complexbusiness and materialsfordevelopingtheseskillscan bedrawn fromsocial psychology and state-of-the-art belittle debatethat culture --"the logic by which I giveorder to the world"(Carroll,1988:3)--strongly influences the success of business enterprisestoday.

5 The earliest, most influential framework first appeared in Geert Hofstede’s (1980a), Culture’s Consequences. Hofstede analyzed survey data collected between 1967 and 1973 from more than 88,000 employees of one company, IBM, in 40 countries.

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