Author(s)

Xiaoyan Chen ¹

Affiliation(s)

¹ Heilongjiang International University, Harbin, China

Corresponding Author

Xiaoyan Chen

ABSTRACT

From the perspective of globalization, the research focuses on building a cross-cultural competence model based on workplace adaptability. The participants in the study were college students and foreign employees in China. The participants were selected through purposeful sampling. The cross-cultural competence scale for the test subjects measures from five dimensions: knowledge, cognition, communication, attitude and consciousness. Then the validity and reliability of cross-cultural competence and its influencing factors are analyzed. On this basis, a cross-cultural competence model based on workplace adaptability is constructed. Through comprehensive analysis and evaluation of key interview data and survey data, three dimensions of the cross-cultural competence model are derived: cross-cultural communication competence, cross-cultural adaptation competence and cross-cultural action competence. This study attempts to explain the different meanings of cross-cultural competence from the perspective of globalization by defining and modeling cross-cultural competence, including cross-cultural communication competence, cross-cultural adaptation competence and cross-cultural action competence into a unified range of variables.

KEYWORDS

globalization, cross-cultural adaptation competence, workplace adaptability, cross-cultural competence model

CITE THIS PAPER

Xiaoyan Chen, Cross-Cultural Competence and Workplace Adaptability in the Perspective of Globalization. Journal of Sociology and Ethnology (2022) Vol. 4: 88-93. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.23977/jsoce.2022.040915.

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