There s no doubt that the confluence of diverse cultures can create opportunities for innovation—think of the Crusades and the Renaissance or of Japan revolutionizing the auto industry. To the extent that creativity is about the recombination of existing ideas Chua says then combining ideas that haven t been connected before creates the potential to produce something new and useful.
The question is how to reap
The benefits of that while minimizing the inevitable misunderstandings. Trying to make a movie about the Tang Dynasty for a Western audience is a very refreshing proposal but at the same time many of the ideas from Chinese culture might not translate easily into a Western context he says. You have to find a way to generate a common platform to appeal Belgium Mobile Database to both sides. In a forthcoming article in the journal Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes Chua uses a combination of survey and experimental research to focus on a key measure psychologists have dubbed cultural metacognition. The term refers to a person s reflective thinking about his or her cultural assumptions. It seems to have a strong effect on how effectively people collaborate across cultures Chua says.
I often compare it to the heightened
Awareness you have when driving in a foreign city where you will pay more attention to the road signs and traffic signs. It s this kind of heightened awareness and reflection about what I think about other cultures and how other cultures think about me that Costa Rica Phone Number helps cross cultural creative collaboration. Testing Cultural Metacognition asked middle level managers enrolled in an executive MBA course to complete a questionnaire to rate their own degree of cultural metacognition. Statements to rate included I am aware of how to use my cultural knowledge when interacting with people from other cultures and I adjust my cultural knowledge while interacting with people from a new or an unfamiliar culture.
