Cultural Intelligence: How Can We Managing Workforce Diversity and Integration across Multicultural Teams?

Running head: CULTURAL INTELLIGENCE
Cultural Intelligence: how can we manage workforce diversity and integration across
multicultural teams?
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Table of contents
1. Introduction..................................................................................................................................3
Research problem and research question.........................................................................................3
Background of the research.............................................................................................................5
2. Literature review..........................................................................................................................5
Significance of cultural intelligence for enhancing the team management ability......................5
Interrelationship between CQ and multicultural team.................................................................7
Theoretical aspects of CQ............................................................................................................9
3. Research methodology...............................................................................................................10
3.3 Research Philosophy:...............................................................................................................10
3.3.1 Justification for the chosen research philosophy:.................................................................10
3.4 Research Approach:.................................................................................................................10
3.4.1 Justification for the chosen research approach:....................................................................11
3.5 Research Design:.....................................................................................................................11
3.5.1 Justification for the chosen research design:........................................................................11
3.6 Data collection method:...........................................................................................................12
3.8.1 Secondary Research:.............................................................................................................12
3.8.2. Primary Research:................................................................................................................12
3.8.2.1 Qualitative Data Collection Method..................................................................................12

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3.9 Data analysis:...........................................................................................................................13
3.10 Research ethical consideration:.............................................................................................13
3.11. Research limitation:..............................................................................................................13
4. Expected results.........................................................................................................................13
5. Prospective contributions...........................................................................................................14
References......................................................................................................................................15

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1. Introduction
In the international trade field, the cultural intelligence has become a significant
contributor (Hajro et al.).Diversified management has become the central issue in the current
business scenario. The workplace diversity is associated with the demographic characteristics
such as race, gender and ethnic background. Due to the cultural differences in the workplace,
managing the diversity has become one of the important concerns (Lester et al.). Increasing
diversified customer profile is impacting on the diverse working culture in a team. It can be said
that due to the multiculturalism expanding the diversity on the workplace has become the
important concerns in the workplace. In case of managing the diversity, the involvement of
teams in the case of dealing with cultural differences as well as adaptive capacities of individuals
can bring the significant impact on the business operations. It cannot be denied that expanding
the nature of an organization, initiatives towards adopting the capacities of individuals in case of
dealing with the situation it can be said that the situation can be managed. Analyzing the
significance of the study it can be assumed that it can play an effective role in case of dealing
with the emerging cultural barriers in different sector. It can also play an important role for
identifying the various cultural barriers which impact on the case of managing the team
performances. The purpose of this research is to highlight the interconnection of effective team
management and cultural intelligence ability.
Research problem and research question
In the evolving global world, rather than focusing on the demographic priorities, talent
management has been focused. Cross cultural team background has brought strong impact in