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Establishing Cultural Intelligence in Organizations
Marcel Wiedenbrugge, Consultant, Netherlands, Member
It all depends on the organizational culture and how an organization communicates this among its employees.
Keep it stupid simple, choose the right people (cultural fit) for your organization. And before they start to work, give them a training in company goals, company structure, communication, collaboration and explain what your global company values truly mean in a cross-functional and cross-cultural manner.
A lot of companies simply don´t work this way, they just focus on getting the job done....
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Culture and Climate, Strengths and Weaknesses
Patrick Kinane, Management Consultant, United States, Member I will agree with most of the article but an organization is composed of more than culture. Organizational culture is how things are done, representin... |
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Senior Execs Should Focus on Strengths
Jane Farran, Business Consultant, United States, Member I agree with Patrick Kinane's point about the fallacy in focusing on weaknesses. A company certainly has to support a manager in developing beyond wea... |
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Socio-cultural Environment in Organizations
D P BABU, Strategy Consultant, India, Member No doubt that organizations are social systems embedded with social and cultural values. Organization development processes also should include cul... |
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Cultural Intelligence and RESPECT
Manepalli Vinay Babu, Partner, India, Member Cultural intelligence in any organisation revolves around every individual embracing the core values of the organisation. Values like "down to earth a... |
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Think Global, Act Local
Madan Gopal Agarwal, Business Consultant, India, Member Successful global organizations have taught the golden rule for success as 'Think global, act local'. This needs to be understood as:
- THINK GLO... |
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Cultural Intelligence Starts with 'Inviting'
Arif ur Rehman, Professor, Pakistan, Member From the 'supple' to the 'soft' through the 'hard' to the 'obnoxious' from the 'palatable (Ed: ~acceptable) ' to the 'unpalatable' - cultural intellig... |
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Building Cultural Intelligence
Moise Mungala Tshimbu, Congo, Democratic Republic of the, Member I do appreciate the content of this article and the wave of comments it raises worldwide.
In my opinion, the starting point consists in getting t... |
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Cultural Intelligence in Mergers
Marcel Wiedenbrugge, Consultant, Netherlands, Member To Daniel Verheyen. In mergers often typical (human) issues arise due to the differences in company cultures. However, there are some good examples wh... |
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Cultural Intelligence and the Will to Equate
Arif ur Rehman, Professor, Pakistan, Member Marcel's observation where success 'emerges' because of cultural overlap between 2 organizations in a merger, by extension also demands the will to... |
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Constant Learning Needed
A.J. Heideman, Management Consultant, Netherlands, Member If we agree on the statement that CQ is largely developed by cognitive means, physical means and motivational means it's evident that a constant le... |
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Personal Sub-cultures
Lien Nguyen, Student (MBA), Viet Nam, Member Though it is vital for anybody doing business internationally to have some level of cultural intelligence, it is a fact that sub-cultures exist in ... |
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Cultural Report
Marcel Wiedenbrugge, Consultant, Netherlands, Member As a suggestion, wouldn't it be interesting if (international) companies would issue a cultural report (next to the standard financial reportin... |
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Organizations are Melting Pots
Ochora Onek, Student (MBA), Uganda, Member Reading through the comments, one thing that can be pointed out is that a culture which is identifiable to an organization is in effect a shade of... |
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Cultural versus Organizational Intelligence
Mohamad Nasir Mahmood, Director, Malaysia, Member Organizational intelligence can be defined as the needs and requirements, the terms and conditions, and the standards and policies that spur an... |
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Cultural Fit in Hiring Phase
Marcel Wiedenbrugge, Consultant, Netherlands, Member There are some wonderful comments here. Let me share one simple example from my own experience. This example shows why cultural fit is such an impo... |
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Cultural Intelligence
Arif ur Rehman, Professor, Pakistan, Member While endorsing brother Baral's views where ' matching personal and organizational attributes' are mentioned, the best attributes would develop ... |
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Cultural Dexterity
Olga Aros, Consultant, United States, Member All organizations involved in global enterprises need to assess the cultural dexterity (Ed: ~being skilled) of their organization and its emplo... |
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Learning Languages
Gwande, Project Manager, Zimbabwe, Member One needs to be a good language learner, accommodating and outgoing. With no knowledge of language, acts or writings that are done in a certain... |
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Balancing Act with Language Learning
Wulf-Dieter Krueger, Teacher, Thailand, Member Yes indeed, that's a very tricky bit, since learning a language in a technical or academic way only does not get you far if you are not culturally int... |
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The Importance of Language
Marcel Wiedenbrugge, Consultant, Netherlands, Member I totally agree about the relationship between language and culture, however, learning a language is very time consuming and can be (very) diff... |
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Learning Languages is Part of CQ
Wulf-Dieter Krueger, Teacher, Thailand, Member Well, since I speak five languages, but only read 4 and write only 2 and learnt 2 languages informally in situ, i.e. the Netherlands/Belgium and Thail... |
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Balancing the Language Learning Act
Arif ur Rehman, Professor, Pakistan, Member One of the best translations of the Quran in English comes from Muhammad Asad, a European jew by birth who later on went to embrace Islam. Towards the... |
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The Importance of Language
A.J. Heideman, Management Consultant, Netherlands, Member There are good reasons to learn a foreign language. If you do business it's very comfortable if you speak and/or understand the language of your custo... |
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Importance of Language
Arif ur Rehman, Professor, Pakistan, Member Absolutely, AJH! Our problems tend to emerge - in the global context - when even after having learnt the customer's language and cultural associations... |
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Importance of Language
Wulf-Dieter Krueger, Teacher, Thailand, Member To Arif Your Rehman
The more languages you learn, and the deeper you get into them, the more this fades out, because you internalise several cult... |
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Importance of Language / Concept of 'face'
Marcel Wiedenbrugge, Consultant, Netherlands, Member The concept of 'face' is very typical for Asia, but actually it exists everywhere. I believe that the basic drivers in human behavior are primarily th... |
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Cultural Intelligence and the Workplace
Mrs. Josephine Idele, Partner, Nigeria, Member In today's business environment and even outside the business settings, cultural intelligence is here to stay since we must interact with people from ... |
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Reasons for Cultural Change in Organizations
Olga Aros, Consultant, United States, Member The idea that people will automatically change and embrace other cultures through training only is not realistic.
There are also busine... |
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Dinosaurs
Wulf-Dieter Krueger, Teacher, Thailand, Member Absolutely right. However, what do you do, if your students embrace change and your native colleagues and superiors don't? Sooner or later the student... |
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Techno-cultural Shared Values
Daniel Newton Obaka Olga, you seem to be seeing the future as it is unfolding through the ever evolving information technology. The choice that humans have now is to r... |
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Dinosaurs
Marcel Wiedenbrugge, Consultant, Netherlands, Member I think Daniel's observation is a very interesting one and - in my opinion - spot on. Technology in general, but especially communication through the ... |
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Information Technology
Gwande, Project Manager, Zimbabwe, Member Information technology has revolutionised communication and as long as people have one common language as is the case here we are all using English th... |
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What we Say / How we Act
Marcel Wiedenbrugge, Consultant, Netherlands, Member I agree with Gwande about expectations. What you or I SAY or WRITE does not necessarily mean that we also ACT accordingly. People may say / thi... |
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