A Theoretical Perspective of Cultural Intelligence for African Organizations in a Global Market: Leveling the Terrain for Firm Performance

Vonai Chirasha

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A Theoretical Perspective of Cultural Intelligence for African Organizations in a Global Market: Leveling the Terrain for Firm Performance

Vonai Chirasha

Published in Frontiers in Cognitive Psychology (Volume 2, Issue 3)

Received: 23 June 2017 Accepted: 7 July 2017 Published: 10 August 2017

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The need to equip employees, managers and leaders with skills that help them operate in a global market has gained momentum with the African Region warming up to globalization through the establishment of Special Economic Zones and the implementation of African Union economic blue print which was built to enable Africa to achieve economic growth through empowering entrepreneurial activities and exploitation of the countries’ resources. This has seen a number of private organisations going global. Higher and Tertiary Education has also opened markets across the globe in an effort to attract students from various cultural settings. This has necessitated the need to review literature on some useful skills that may help the organisations in this ever changing environment. Cultural Intelligence is a new field of intelligence that has immense relevance to the increasingly global and diverse environment. Literature review has indicated the importance of cultural intelligence as a vital tool for organisations who deal with diverse customers, partners, competitors, and other business players. The paper highlights the types of culturally intelligence available to all organisations and their effects. Desk-top research was used to review literature from journals, internet and government publications. It is recommended that organisations acquire cultural intelligence to improve employee and firm performance on the globe.

Published in	Frontiers in Cognitive Psychology (Volume 2, Issue 3)
DOI	10.11648/j.fcp.20170203.13
Page(s)	82-88
Creative Commons	This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Cultural Intelligence, Diverse Environment, Small Medium Enterprises, Firm Performance, Sustainability

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Vonai Chirasha. A Theoretical Perspective of Cultural Intelligence for African Organizations in a Global Market: Leveling the Terrain for Firm Performance. Front Cognit Psychol. 2017;2(3):82-88. doi: 10.11648/j.fcp.20170203.13

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Department of Human Resource Management Faculty of Social Science, Midlands State University, Gweru, Zimbabwe

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Vonai Chirasha. A Theoretical Perspective of Cultural Intelligence for African Organizations in a Global Market: Leveling the Terrain for Firm Performance. Front Cognit Psychol. 2017;2(3):82-88. doi: 10.11648/j.fcp.20170203.13

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