What Does it Mean to Be Globally Competent?

Content Summary

To contribute to the valuable and ongoing debate regarding the definition of global citizenship and global competency, this study proposes a definition
developed through the use of a Delphi Technique involving human resource managers at top transnational corporations, senior international educators, United Nations officials, inter-cultural trainers and foreign government officers. This definition is used as the foundation for the development of a survey to determine the knowledge, skills, and attitudes and experiences necessary to be considered globally competent. The survey was sent to 133 representatives from
universities that self-nominated for recognition in the "Profiles of Success at Colleges and Universities—Internationalizing the Campus 2003" NAFSA: Association of International Educators publication and the transnational corporation human resource officials serving as members of the National Foreign Trade Council’s Expatriate Management Committee and Global Mobility Roundtable.

Access this content

Choose an option below

Register to access this content

Your Work Email

Your Full Name

Your Company

Your Job Function

You might also be interested in

Knowledge, Skills, Attitudes, and Experiences Necessary to Become Globally Competent

The purposes of this study were to develop a “working” definition of the term “global competence,” and to determine if there are significant differences between the knowledge,...

Got Global CO: Creating globally competent U.S Citizens

Explains the rationale for the seminal research on global competence—a paradigm shift due to globalization—and that future economic success demands that students of the 21st...

Educating Global-Ready Graduates

Distinguishes between research conducted by Deardorff and the model of intercultural competence and the research conducted by Hunter and the Global Competence Model™