Globe Leadership Research Paper:
The most promising strategy for sustained multicultural improvement is developing the ability of personnel to function with moderate to high levels of cultural intelligence (CQ). In this multicultural community, leaders, like you, create an environment that foster mutual understanding, cooperation, trust, and personal growth as they work together to achieve what cannot be accomplished alone.
Yet, multicultural collaboration in many organizations seems to be an unnatural act. Therefore, your task is to respond to the question below and synthesize how you can be an effective cultural intelligent (CQ) leader in an organization.
The first portion of your paper requires the student to researchsynthesize and report the current skill-set of Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats (SWOT) within the cultural intelligence area. When this SWOT is complete, the student will take this information and evaluate four to five (4-5) CQ practices which an organization can implement which can foster a results-oriented environment yet encourages multicultural understanding from employee groups. Choose any organization which meets your needs (place of employment or a local company in your community).
Part One: Personal SWOT Analysis for Cultural Intelligence (CQ)
A CQ SWOT analysis is a look at you and your life as it relates to cultural intelligence. It will help you identify where you need to improve as it relates to CQ, and more importantly allows you to identify your internal CQ strengths that you can capitalize on to seize your opportunities and thwart any external threats. For this reason, it is an important step which shouldn’t be overlooked.
Strengths: What are your abilities, skills talents in CQ? What do you currently “bring to the table?”
Weaknesses: What are your main limitations in CQ?
Opportunities: What opportunities (dreams, wishes, goals) have you been considering in CQ?
Threats: What external threats (changes to income, travel fears, etc) could affect you negatively?
Part Two: The impact ofmulticultural practices on organizations.
The second part of the paper is to evaluate four to five (4-5) CQ practices which an organization can implement which can foster a results-oriented environment yet encourages multicultural understanding from employee groups. Choose an organization or a company you are close to or have an interest in (like Soaring Eagle Casino, Spectrum Health Care, Ford Motor Company, FOX Entertainment in Detroit, Whirlpool, CMU, TACOM, any division in the US Military, General Motors, Coca Cola, etc). You could select your current employer if you choose! Make it your own! This portion of the paper requires you to review “best multicultural intelligence practices” and create an action plan for CQ training in the organization. If the organization has some forms of CQ training, identify them and provide an analysis.