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ERIC Number: EJ774074
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2004-Jun
Pages: 7
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ISSN: ISSN-0094-1956
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Developing Cross-Cultural Skills of International Business Students: An Experiment
Sizoo, Steve; Serrie, Hendrick
Journal of Instructional Psychology, v31 n2 p160-166 Jun 2004
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.)
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive
Education Level: Higher Education
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Language: English
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