It is not just in the business world where cultural importance plays an integral role. Each year, students engage in overseas community or exchange programmes as well, where we try to learn as much as we can from people from a unique background. Getting expose while we are still students prepare us for the opportunities that will come our way when we are expose to the outside world.
The benefits to improving our cultural intelligence like having superior cross-cultural adjustments, improved job performances are just tools that we have to learn to use. Cultural intelligence did not simply appear overnight, yet the importance has only been realised with the increasing number of overseas investment and ventures.
In a personal context, our daily lives depending on our ability to get along. The social needs that the humans require like friendships, romantic attachments, families and social groups all involve another person to satisfy. The chances of meeting people from a different cultural background would be relatively high. Hence, cultural clashes and the ability to solve them would be part and parcel of our
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As a small country with almost no resources, the country’s main method of generating revenue has came from foreign investments and its ability to attract multi-national corporations to set up their regional headquarters in Singapore. Furthermore, successful local business also start to look towards overseas expansions to generate more revenue and expand their outreach. The importance of cultural intelligence starts to see a more significant part in today’s local context.
Having managers in positions with high cultural intelligence can only improve the standing of the company. During the discussion we highlighted multiple points which not only benefits the company, but also the individual as well. The use of cultural intelligence not just applies to the job we do, but even in our daily interactions it may help to a certain