Cultural Intelligence Scale (CQS): Testing Cross-cultural Transferability of CQS in Ukraine

• Authors: R. Boyd Johnson , Svitlana Buko
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The article examines the cross-cultural transferability of widely accepted cross-cultural assessment tool using research conducted in Ukraine - the Cultural Intelligence Scale (CQS), insights from the American and Ukrainian researchers who translated and adapted the instrument in Ukraine. Within the qualitative focus group study researchers look at the peculiarities of CQS perceptions by the Ukrainian audience sample and identify barriers of these perceptions, peculiarities of perceptions of citizens of Ukraine regarding cross-cultural interaction.

Keywords

EN

cultural intelligence; cross-cultural communication; cross-cultural interaction; transferability

• Publisher: Sciendo
• Journal: Studies of Changing Societies
• Year: 2014
• Volume: 2013
• Issue: 4
• Pages: 52-67

Dates

online

2014-11-05

Contributors

author

R. Boyd Johnson

• Chair of the doctoral program in Organizational Leadership, Department of Organizational Leadership, Graduate Studies in Leadership, Indiana Wesleyan University 1900 W. 50th Street Marion, IN 46256 USA

author

Svitlana Buko

• PhD. Research Director, Precedent Academics 9465 Counselors Row, Suite 200 Indianapolis, IN 46240

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Identifiers

DOI

10.2478/scs-2014-0160