TY - JOUR
T1 - Approaches for Developing Intercultural Competence
T2 - An Extended Learning Model With Implications From Cultural Neuroscience
AU - Chang, Wei Wen
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2017, © The Author(s) 2017.
PY - 2017/6/1
Y1 - 2017/6/1
N2 - In today’s workplace, organizations invest widely in intercultural training programs to develop leaders’ and employees’ abilities to function effectively overseas or in a culturally diverse work environment. However, these training programs are often perceived as ineffective or are even occasionally suspected of increasing the biases between groups from varied backgrounds. Faced with such results, the emerging field of cultural neuroscience has provided a biological perspective to explain the contradictions between training goals and outcomes. This article first discusses the prevailing training approaches and reviews recent studies in cultural neuroscience to explore neural reasons for certain cultural behaviors. It then identifies three implications from this review and presents an extended experiential learning model. Finally it provides three suggestions for intercultural training design.
AB - In today’s workplace, organizations invest widely in intercultural training programs to develop leaders’ and employees’ abilities to function effectively overseas or in a culturally diverse work environment. However, these training programs are often perceived as ineffective or are even occasionally suspected of increasing the biases between groups from varied backgrounds. Faced with such results, the emerging field of cultural neuroscience has provided a biological perspective to explain the contradictions between training goals and outcomes. This article first discusses the prevailing training approaches and reviews recent studies in cultural neuroscience to explore neural reasons for certain cultural behaviors. It then identifies three implications from this review and presents an extended experiential learning model. Finally it provides three suggestions for intercultural training design.
KW - adult learning
KW - change (individual)
KW - experiential learning
KW - psychological theory
KW - training and development
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U2 - 10.1177/1534484317704292
DO - 10.1177/1534484317704292
M3 - Review article
AN - SCOPUS:85019478594
VL - 16
SP - 158
EP - 175
JO - Human Resource Development Review
JF - Human Resource Development Review
SN - 1552-6712
IS - 2
ER -