The Effectiveness of Intercultural and Interpersonal Processes in Multicultural Professional Teams

Abstract

The primary challenge of explaining intercultural competence to others is describing its complexity to different readers in a straightforward order and providing them with the foundational concepts, important theory, and rich experiential and factual details. The article explains intercultural competence relevance to contemporary organizations, and highlights its perceptual nature. Further, describes how intercultural competence is viewed in the context of multicultural teams, and outlines the basis for researching and practicing intercultural competence.