Influence of cultural intelligence on group effectiveness

Today's environment creates a thriving way for organizations to do their functions through teams and groups. Organizations seek to employ individuals who can perform better in groups, frequently enable to adjust with people from varied cultures, and handle intercultural communications. Therefore, group members need to know about other cultures and should be able to interact with people from different cultural background. Consequently, people need cultural intelligence. The purpose of this study is to investigate the relationship between cultural intelligence and group effectiveness in Mobarakeh Steel Company. ۴۷ teams participated in this study. According to the results, cultural intelligence and its components (metacognition, cognition, motivation and behavior) have straightforward relationship with group effectiveness. Also motivation and behavior are good predictors of group effectiveness. Keywords: Group, Group effectiveness, Cultural differences, Cultural intelligence