Cultural Intelligence for Teachers in Migrated Position:An Essential Capability

Abstract

Globalized world is now boundary-less and every eligible individual can work everywhere in the world. Every institution hires expatriates from different country for skilled practitioners due to shortages of skilled practitioners worldwide. Every country is unique by its own culture and language. India is a culturally diverse country and there 28 states and 9 union territories. The people of India in every state and union territory practice their own unique culture and language. There are many institutions, which are operates by the central government of India and practitioners are recruited across the country like Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalayas, Kendriya Vidyalayas, Sainik Schools, colleges, universities, Banks, organizations etc. So, this trend increases the diversity in work place. Intercultural interaction with people from different cultural background make conflicts, tension and misunderstandings. Which create unhealthy environment and institutional success suffers for that. Moreover, in a same institution and similar qualifications practitioners, some are more effective than others. To address these conflicts Earley and Ang (2003) coined the popular construct the cultural intelligence in the fields of social science and management. The study has collected data from artefacts and previous studies have done on cultural intelligence. The present study has discussed the rationale and urgency of the cultural intelligence for teachers and other employees working in migrated position in domestic or global cultural environments.