Examining the Role of Cultural Exposure in Improving Intercultural Competence and Implications for HRM Practices in Multicultural Organizations

This article discusses the importance of managing cultural diversity and its impact on job performance, morale of employees, and conflict situations. It examines the role of cultural exposure in improving intercultural competence and its implications for HRM practices in multicultural organizations.

Cross Cultural

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................1
A summary of the article........................................................................................................1
A discussion on the meaning or implications of what the article is about.............................2
Limitations of the taken article...............................................................................................3
How the knowledge in the area can be expanded...................................................................4
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................5
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................5

INTRODUCTION
Cross Cultural Organisational Behaviour plays a very significant role in running a
organisation. The cross cultural organizational behaviour is basically the study of differences in
process, study of cross cultural similarities and dynamics and behaviour at work of cross cultural
interfaces in the international and domestic multicultural contexts. The present report involves
the review on the article based on “Examining the role of cultural exposure in improving
intercultural competence and implications for HRM practices in the multicultural organizations.
MAIN BODY
A summary of the article
The present article basically helps in understanding the concept of managing cultural
diversity and how it is important for human resource management. It helps in identifying the
various cultural differences which have a major influence on the job performance, morale of
employees and situation of conflict. The concept of cultural diversity helps in providing various
advantages such as increased performance and creativity (Barry and Owens, 2019). According to
the organizations and researchers, there are various significant factors that plays a major role in
organisations success. In addition to that, the article helps in deeper understanding of the
difference between the intercultural competence and intercultural sensitivity.
The journal article helps in examination of the depth and breadth of the cultural exposure
and use of intercultural competence and intercultural sensitivity for the purpose to draw
implications in order for staff development and improving the process of recruitment practices in
the business firms (Clark and Harrison, 2018). In context country like Australia, it is believed
that intercultural competence plays a significant role and is one of the broader concept which is
needed for deep exposure to other cultural as compared to intercultural sensitivity. As per the
article, it has been suggested that CE has limited potential whereas depth of CE helps in
providing benefits in order to improve the individual intercultural abilities. In addition to that the
article involves implications based on various findings such as how the company are able to
develop and recruit employees who are inter culturally inclined and effectively navigate the
challenges of working in today’s multicultural organizations. In addition to that, it involves
cultural exposure using two distinctive concepts which comprise of depth of exposure and
breadth of exposure. It also involves control variables that comprises of gender and age that
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helps in examination of the intercultural competence (Motti-Stefanidi and Coll, 2018). The
Journal articles helps in deeper understanding of how the organisations should take advantage of
the various learning opportunities which are available to them and how a culturally diverse
workforce helps in creating opportunities for employees in order to establish positive interaction
among each other. It could be easily done with the help of get together, form of informal
department and various festival and cultural celebrations. The articles also involves various
strategies that help the company to leverage and identify the workforce cultural diversity
basically as a development tool. When the organisation become efficient in managing, the
concept of cultural diversity becomes a source of sustainable competitive advantage for the
various industries and organizations.
With the help of journal article, it helps in providing important information in relation to
the IC, CE and IS and also helps in developing mental practices among the company and
practical implications for recruitment. It also helps in understanding how cross sectional survey
are designed and collected from different participants on various locations. In addition to that,
various scholars have recognized that IC is considered to be a complex construct and it is very
difficult to utilize the survey questionnaire. The article further helps in improving the knowledge
in relation to the understanding of the IC, CE and IS and also the relationship among different
constructs. It helps in better understanding of the IC concept which generally requires deep
exposure as compared to other culture. In reference to the existence of diversity of culture in
modern organizations, the understanding helps in providing important insights which further
supports in decreasing the negative effects that the concept of cultural diversity brings to the
organisation. The articles helps in boosting knowledge in relation to the various practices that
helps in improving the practice of recruitment of various companies and how organisations hire
employees who have the skills and capabilities in order to survive in a workplace which is
culturally diverse. The article also helps in providing various implications in reference to the
intercultural competencies for the existing employees (Crawshaw, Budhwar and Davis, 2020).
A discussion on the meaning or implications of what the article is about
The article basically focuses on the examination of the role of cultural exposure for the
purpose to improve the intercultural competence which further includes the various implications
for human resource management practices in multicultural organizations. The article is purely
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based on drawing implications for the purpose to improve staff development practices and
improving recruitment for the organizations who are experiencing a culturally diverse workforce.
In addition to that various implications are drawn on the basis of study and findings that
comprise of the companies who are capable of recruiting and developing employees in a inter
culturally inclined workplace and who can navigate in a better way and deal with challenges of
working in today’s multicultural organizations. In addition to that, the article involves brief
discussion on the implications for the research findings in context to the HRM practices. The
article further comprises of various findings and helps in providing significant insights into IC,
CE and IS and helps in deeper understanding of the implications in order to develop mental
practices and recruitment practices within the organisations. The article helps in improving the
knowledge of IC, CE and IS and also helps in practical implications in order to develop the
intercultural competencies of the current staff and employees (Mertova and Webster, 2019).
Limitations of the taken article
Although the findings of this observation offers big visions into CE, IS and IC as constructs and
assist with realistic implications for staffing and broaden intellectual practices inside
organizations and a few boundaries need to be mentioned alongside the results to
meaningfully understand the findings of the observe(Li, K., 2019).
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First, in the current multicultural societies people are uncovered to one of a kind cultures
while not having the want or desire for distant travel places. Given cultural variety inside a
country states the degree of CE that have to be in addition advanced to encompass no longer
simply the breadth and intensity of publicity at the same time as distant places however
additionally cultural reports inside one’s very own country. Some studies shows that having near
non-public buddies from different cultures does now no longer always contain travelling distant
places which could assist enhance IS. The modern-day have a look at does now no longer take
such styles of cultural reports under consideration which may be taken into consideration a
hindrance of the way CE has been measured on this have a look at. Future studies can advantage
from using a multidimensional CE degree in deliberating the cultural variety inside a
country(Kundu, S.C., Kumar, S. and Gahlawat, N., 2019).
Second, due to the fact a cross-sectional survey layout that has become used and the records
were gathered from the members on a unmarried occasion can lead to correlation which can be
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installed among CE, IS and IC. Future studies should gain from a longitudinal layout, wherein IS
and IC are measured at precise periods over the years as people face an increasing number of CE.
This can be an exciting street for in addition studies due to the fact there's studies that indicates
that people who are already inter-culturally willing searching for out possibilities to be in
intercultural situations. For example, nearly all the research and studies on have a look at
overseas applications highlights that scholars who take part in those applications have higher
inter-cultural abilities first of all compared to college students who select now no longer to take
part. The identical can be authentic for the people who have excessive cross-cultural exposure. A
longitudinal have a look at however, couldn't best assist set up causality however may also yield
greater informative records concerning the awesome function of breadth and intensity of CE in
enhancing intercultural abilities(Wang, C.T.L. and Schofer, E., 2018).
Finally, many students have identified that IC is a complicated assemble and this is hard
to seize completely through various means of utilising a survey questionnaire as it consists of a
behavioural component. Future studies could substantially gain from utilising a blended
strategies layout which can encompass numerous strategies of analysing IC which will seize this
complicated assemble in a holistic fashion.
How the knowledge in the area can be expanded
The expansion of CE enables to improve the intercultural understanding along with the
improvement of intercultural capability. A research states that the opportunity to interact
with other people belonging to different cultures does not always means that interaction has
happened. The expansion of CE has been conducted by different methods such as breadth of
exposure and depth of exposure. Breadth is majorly measured through the number of
countries an individual has visited and depth is measured by asking the individuals about
their travelling experience and interaction with the locals (Grott and et. al., 2019). A
research has argue that the possibility to engage with people from specific cultures does now
no longer always suggest that interactions have occurred. Therefore, there are numerous
research that display breadth of CE that can have a advantageous effect on IC and the
findings from the modern look at spotlight that after taken into consideration along intensity
of CE, breadth of CE has restrained capability to enhance intercultural outcomes. The
outcomes imply that breadth of CE improves IS that is the information and focus of cultural
differences, while the intensity of CE is to improve each IS and IC to position the
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information and focus into exercise in a cross-cultural state of affairs ensuing in culturally
suitable behaviour. These verdicts are compatible with the literature which argues that IC is
a wider idea as in comparison to IS, which might also additionally give an explanation for
why it calls for a deeper publicity to different cultures to domesticate in comparison to IS.
CONCLUSION
From the above report it has been analysed that the study of improving intercultural
competence through the help of cultural exposure has improved the understanding of CE,
IC, IS and the connection between these constructs. The consequences suggest that breadth
and depth of CE has impact the IS and IC very differently. These consequences aid the
perception that IC is a broader idea that calls for a deep publicity to different cultures to
increase in comparison to IS. The observe affords empirical proof to aid a clean difference
among the two intercultural constructs such as IS, IC and additionally highlights the
significance of thinking about each breadth and intensity of CE in destiny research. Given
the superiority of cultural variety in cutting edge agencies, the findings offer giant insights
that would assist lessen the poor outcomes that cultural variety regularly brings (Pang, H.,
2020). The findings assist enhance the recruitment practices of agencies that desire to rent
personnel who have the skills to thrive in a culturally various workplace. The findings
additionally offer realistic implications for growing the intercultural talents of current
personnel.
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