Intercultural Competence in Business

INTERCULTURAL
COMPETENCE IN
BUSINESS

TABLE OF CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................4
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................4
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................7
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................8

INTRODUCTION
Intercultural competence is basically the series of cognitive and behavioural skills which
result in effective communication with individuals of another culture. The main purpose of this
study is to understand the importance of different cultures and how they influence the mind of
other individual. This report gives a brief about self awareness, awareness of different culture,
comparison of cultural aspect through cultural framework.
MAIN BODY
Self awareness
When I was a kid, I used to see people how they suffer from various problems and issues
and deal with their problems. I used to see women how they struggle with their life due to
incompetent partners ad remain under the threat of domestic violence. As a kid, it was very
difficult for me to go through the events where my mother used to be threatened by my father
every day and this impacted my brain as well as my health. I belong to the African family and
due to this I strongly believe that darker complexion of my mother was the main reason behind
this violence. I used to sit in an isolated room when my father betas my mother on her small
mistakes. This affected my whole childhood and this compelled me to think that why women
does not raise their voice and why they feel so helpless to take action against this violence. I used
to think that when I will be competent enough, I will become a social worker and thus will raise
the voice against these domestic violence that happens across the world (Elo, Benjowsky and
Nummela, 2015). The main rationale behind my dream of becoming a social worker was the
different types of violence which I used to notice even in my house. When my used to beat my
mother, me and my sister just sit aside and used to cry because we were minors and did not have
the courage to deal with the situation. This made me frightened and I began to get sacred of my
father as same could happen with me and my sister. This whole incident left a deep impression
on my mid and I began to feel lonely. Even during my school hours, I was not able to
concentrate on my studies and this affected my grades and overall learning capacity. As
compared to other students, my grades useful to be low and even I failed in my 5th grade. I
always used to sit alone at an isolated place when my school was over because I did not have the
courage to face the same situation day and night. Not only my mother, but the condition of other
women in my neighbour hood also tend to frighten me as they too were the prey of some of the
other form of domestic violence. My classmates used to mock me for my low grades and for not