Answer To: Assignment 1: Intercultural competence self-assessment and development plan Length: XXXXXXXXXXwords...
Soumi answered on Feb 21 2021
Running Head: LEADERSHIP ESSAY 1
LEADERSHIP ESSAY 8
LEADERSHIP ESSAY
INTERCULTURAL COMPETENCE SELF-ASSESSMENT AND DEVELOPMENT PLAN
Table of Contents
Task 1: Critical Evaluation of Competencies Relating to IES 3
Task 2: Applying Intercultural Lens 5
References 8
Task 1: Critical Evaluation of Competencies Relating to IES
It is found that the personal survey report presented an overview of three major aspects of the participants, namely – Continuous learning, interpersonal engagements and hardiness. As mentioned by Barker-Ruchti (2019), continuous learning is the process through which a person gradually refines his or her range of knowledge through learning new development in the specific areas of interest. As continuous learning helps in acquiring refined skills and knowledge, persons with the tendency of continuous learning attain higher degree of organizational success (Wozniak, 2019). It is seen that continuous learning brings forth two major aspects – self-awareness and necessity of exploration.
Secondly, there is aspect of interpersonal engagement, which evaluates the degree of a person’s inclination towards being acquainted with people from different backgrounds and cultures. As supported by Earley and Mosakowski (2004), interpersonal engagement determines a person’s nature of understanding the difference in perspectives of another person, working in the same working atmosphere and sharing the same goal as his or hers. Lastly, there is the element of hardiness, which tends to consider the ability of an individual in a multicultural working atmosphere. As supported by Ritonja, Aronson, Matthews, Boivin and Kantermann (2019), hardiness is the measured ability of an individual in terms of his or her capacity of separating personal feelings and perspective to gain a symmetry with a culture, where diverse ideas of work does not match personal preferences.
In terms of the actual marks I got from the intercultural effectiveness score (IES), it can be said that my performance was not great. In case of continuous learning, I scored only 4 out of 7, which are considered to be a moderate score, while in case of hardiness, I scored 5, which is moderate as well. In terms of the interpersonal engagement, I scored 4, which again is moderate. Based on my moderate score of continuous learning it can be assumed that my endeavors for acquiring new knowledge and refine my learning skills are undermining and have ample scope for improvement. As supported by Bennett, (2014), a person with moderate IES score can always improve him or herself, attain a better score, and improve potential chances of successful career pursuing. The moderate score of continuous learning aspect also made me realize that I had not been very aware about the strengths I possess, the weaknesses I have and interpersonal skills that I lack, despite having the fundamental knowledge about the mentioned aspects.
My scoring of 5 out of 7 in the aspect of hardiness, categorized me in the moderate section of scorecard, however, it became very clear to me that I have satisfactory ability to keep my personal opinions and values from that of a multicultural workplace. As opined by Mendenhall et al. (2008), as a person highlights the ability to keep his or her personal and multicultural perspective at distance from one another without being inclined any one of the two, can perform in any organizational setting, as the personal opinions would not hinder the rational actions conducted while performing for an organizational goal.
In terms of my moderate score of 4 in interpersonal engagement, it became evident that I, as a part of a taskforce, would be able to develop communication with others in the group on moderate levels, making me capable of coordinated task performing. However, in case of difficult scenarios, where I could face issues of working with...