Validating Global Competency Scale for Indian Business and Management Education

Abstract

When the organizations started to expand their business across the globe, with the opening up of markets, the issues of international management strategies and competencies of international mangers got more and more attention. Researchers along with the business houses started their quest for identifying, defining and framing a set of competencies necessary for a successful international manager. In this process throughout the years a number of models and construct have been developed to address the issue of competencies required for globalized management era. In the context of management educations the issues global competency development is yet in the stage of infancy, developing very sluggishly, un-professionally and irrelevantly. Considering the state of pseudo showcasing the global competency development practices in the Bschools in India, the authors attempted to develop a scale for facilitating assessment among the students of b-schools for Indian educational set-up. The present attempt has identified the variables from various models and constructs and checked the validity and reliability of the scale proposed.