Cultural intelligence is an ability that varies with individuals and explains differences in intercultural effectiveness. This ability is difficult to assess, yet managers must be able to measure it in order to determine which employees are talented at working across cultural contexts and with...

What is it about schooling that the labor market rewards? The long time answer has essentially been noncognitive skills (i.e., behavioral and personality traits). Allowing cognitive skills (i.e., the capacity to process information and apply knowledge to working tasks) to be acquired both inside...

This paper proposes a theoretical concept of cross cultural discursive competence (CCDC). As an initial step, it reviews and critiques a series of in the relevant areas of intercultural communication, genre analysis and contrastive rhetoric and points out that it is imperative to explore what...

Interest in emotional intelligence has bloomed over the last few years. That it has become a standard concept in general and applied psychology, as well as in applied business settings, is indubitable. Emotional Intelligence - EQ - is a relatively recent behavioral model, rising to prominence...