Bernhard Schieber

Cultural Intelligence (CQ)

Knowledge

Cultural Intelligence concerns effective action across cultural differences. Four capabilities combine knowledge, reflective monitoring, motivation, and behavioural flexibility. The framework helps diagnose difficulties and test alternative interpretations, while self-report scores and national generalizations cannot replace observation of the particular people, task, and context.

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Editorial orientation · Family

Model

In this series, Model names the editorial family primarily used to understand and explain communication: theories, frameworks, effects, traditions, principles and other conceptual resources. It is an umbrella for a route into the field, not a claim that every included object is a predictive model.

Editorial orientation · Category

Theories & Explanatory Models

Explains how or why a communication process works by relating mechanisms, conditions or variables. Its value is an account that can guide inquiry into what produces an outcome, rather than a name for the outcome alone.

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