Leveraging the Intercultural Development Inventory® to Increase Intercultural Competence (66226)
Session Chair: Michael Dixon
Sunday, January 8, 2023 (18:45)
Session: Session 4
Room: Live-Stream E
Presentation Type:Live-Stream Presentation
Oftentimes, advancing diversity and inclusion is viewed to be successful when we have established spaces and places for the “others”. True inclusiveness involves strategically weaving diversity and inclusion efforts through the entire fabric of an organization, not simply developing specialized programs. Making the organization more inclusive (making the mix work) is often focused on developing more culturally appropriate recruitment, retention, performance evaluation, promotion, rewards, and leadership practices and policies. This can be done by assessing the level of intercultural capacity. The Intercultural Development Inventory is a tool that provides valid measurement of cross-cultural competence at the individual, team, and organizational levels. This tool measures intercultural competence by utilizing the Intercultural Development Continuum ® (IDC) describing a set of orientations toward cultural difference and commonality that are arrayed along a continuum from the more monocultural mindsets of Denial and Polarization through the transitional orientation of Minimization to the intercultural or global mindsets of Acceptance and Adaptation. The capability of deeply shifting cultural perspectives and bridging behavior across cultural differences is most fully achieved when one maintains an Adaptation perspective. It also provides guidelines on the kinds of learning interventions that most effectively and efficiently build intercultural competence. Further, there is a growing body of research that clearly demonstrates that with appropriate learning interventions based on IDI profile results.
Authors:
Lisa D Givan, Indiana Tech, United States
Michael Dixon, Susquehanna University, United States
About the Presenter(s)
Ms Lisa D Givan is a School Administrator at Indiana Tech , United States
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