Abstract
Main issue: This article aims to measure intercultural teamwork competence and assess its impact on career competitive advantages for design students in order to determine how effective and competitive team members are in culturally diverse settings. Sampling: there were 51 participants (48 effective) in pretesting and 405 (338 effective) in formal testing. Participants were students from three colleges of design in Zhejiang Province of China. Statistical tool: this study used the on-line platform of wenjuanxing (wjx.cn) for data collection and SPSS software for data analysis. Methods: data were collected through on-line questionnaires, and then processed through factor analysis, t-test, and stepwise regression. Results: (1) TWC-CQ scale was formed to measure intercultural teamwork competence; (2) there were no statistically significant differences among participating design students (junior and senior) in intercultural teamwork competencies; (3) key competitive advantage = 0.347 × T-behavioral CQ + 0.232 × T-metacognitive CQ + 0.172 × T-motivational CQ + 0.124 × T-cognitive CQ. Conclusions: intercultural teamwork competence and its positive impact on design students’ competitive advantages could be measured. Implications: theoretical and practical implications were summed up for future studies.
Highlights
The research findings are summarized by conducting the methods outlined above from these six aspects: (1) statistics of samples; (2) contents of the teamwork competence (TWC)-CQ scale; (3)
This study identified the key factors in intercultural TWC and their priority ranking in terms of impacting career competitive advantage
This study provided an example of applying CQ scale (CQS) into a domain which highly valued cultural intelligence
Summary
Intercultural understanding and effective approaches to global cooperation and coordination are urgently required to meet the challenges of global crises, such as the COVID-19 pandemic. Design has played an important role in solving cross-cultural problems. To prepare design students to address global critical design problems, design education should provide appropriate training and guidance, transforming responsibility, empathy, and intercultural understanding into design practice capable of addressing global problems. Global competencies, such as intercultural teamwork practice, are effective approaches to achieve this aim. Global competencies are vital for societies to progress in this changing world [5]
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