INCA Survey Question Answer 2022

INCA SURVEY
Please answer honestly what you think or would do. There is no “correct” answer.
Afterwards, use the INCA Survey key to calculate your scores.
Part 1 (Questions 1-7)
Choose:
(a) Never
(b) Sometimes
(c) Frequently or always
1. In restaurants I often eat dishes with ingredients that I don’t know.
b) Sometimes
2. I often seek contact with other people in order to learn as much as possible
about their culture.
c) Frequently
3. When other people don’t feel comfortable in my presence, I notice it.
b) Sometimes
4. I find it easy to adapt to people from diverse origins.
c) Frequently
5. I am comfortable with not understanding things if I am in a strange place or foreign
country.
b) Sometimes
6. When there are colleagues in my work area who constitute an ethnic minority, I try to
involve them in the majority group.
c) Always
7. When colleagues or superiors from different cultures criticize my work, I consider
changing my work habits accordingly.
b) Sometimes
Part 2 – Scenarios (Questions 8 – 12)
You have been selected to take part in an international work project with an associate
European company. This will involve you spending 3–4 months in a country which you

have not visited before (although it is possible that you learnt some of the language at
school).
8. What kind of information do you think you would need before departure?
a. I don’t know, I would wait until I got there.
b. I would use a guide book or other sources to find information about housing,
healthcare, travel.
c. I would learn or review the language and look for official sources on history and
culture
You have been appointed to a placement in another country for training purposes. Early
in your placement, you discover that the system of hierarchy is totally different from
that practiced in your own country. For example, you are used to people dressing
informally, using first names, eating in the same canteen. Here there is much more
formality, rules and regulations, and people don’t even speak the same way to each
other. It is very strange and you cannot help feeling that your own way is much better.
9. What are some things you might do?
a) Make an effort to maintain familiar practices, Try and change things, Explain
that our ways are better
b) Admit homesickness, Look for positive side, even though own way is best
c) Seek explanation from superiors in order to understand reasons, Make an
effort to be patient, tolerant, Try out a different way of behaving to fit in,
co-operate, adapt self to others
A young person from a different country comes to work at your firm for 6 months. You
are aware that he is rather isolated and you consider the idea of inviting him to join you
and your friends. The problem is that your group of friends have known each other for a
long time and a stranger would find it difficult to fit in.
10. What would you probably do?
a) Ask friends whether they would welcome a stranger before taking action, Find
out from conversation whether the person would have similar interests, Invite if
interests are similar

b) Invite even if interests are different, Tell friends that you are bringing a
stranger and explain why, Find out whether the person would like to join your
group of friends, Invite because you would like to be invited if you were in the
same position.
c) Mention the problem to a colleague, Wait to see whether the person suggests
meeting
You have been working in a foreign country for six months and you speak the language
well enough for everyday needs. At work, difficult procedures are explained to you in
your own language, so there are no problems here. However, it is almost impossible to
understand your colleagues when they talk to each other as they talk quickly about
situations you do not understand. It is also difficult to understand jokes and casual
remarks where people seem to speak in a local dialect. Therefore you often feel out of
your depth and confused.
11. How do you feel?
a) I would feel unhappy, I would feel very left out, I couldn’t deal with that
b) I would talk only to fellow nationals
c) As long as I wasn’t being deliberately excluded it would be OK
12. How would you describe a familiar but complicated task involving the use of a piece
of machinery as if to a foreigner who did not speak the language very well?
a) Speak slowly and loudly
b) Use gestures
c) Have him/her demonstrate understanding at the end
Part Three : Roleplay (Questions 13-18)
Mr Parker, a department director of a company in Southern England, has traveled to
China in order to conduct negotiations. He is welcomed by the Managing Director of
the Chinese company. But Mr Parker is not satisfied with the way the negotiations are
going...