A Literature Review of Cultural Intelligence

Organizations are getting transformed into international organizations due to developments taking place in the area of leadership, technology, business models and the composition of the workforce. Cultural Intelligence has become the key driver to understand, adapt and perform in an international arena. Cultural intelligence gives an insight on understanding why some of the individuals are able to cope and succeed in a diverse environment than others. There are various studies been undertaken to know the unprecedented impact of CQ on the global organizations. This paper aims to provide an extensive review of the literature on CQ. For a better understanding, the review has been divided into two sections based on two approaches i.e. definition and variables. Further the division into two sections( definition and variables undertaken) has helped to magnify the growing importance of the concept of CQ. In the first section a snapshot of existing literature covering various definitions related to CQ and its dimensions has been dealt with. Second section discusses the variables chosen by various scholars to study CQ along with the methodology adopted to analyze the relationship of CQ with other constructs.