Unraveling Cultural Intelligence and Its Impact on Perceived Employability Among Undergraduate Students in Philippines’ Public Universities

Daniel Fritz V. Silvallana () and Maartandan S. Suppiah
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Daniel Fritz V. Silvallana: Davao del Norte State College
Maartandan S. Suppiah: Universiti Utara Malaysia

A chapter in Proceedings of the 19th International Symposium on Management (INSYMA 2022), 2023, pp 409-415 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract Managing a multicultural environment has been increasingly challenging in the workplace. Higher education institutions are expected to play an active role in developing and promoting necessary skills for students to be adaptive in a diverse workplace after graduation. Cultural intelligence becomes a necessary soft skill to communicate effectively in a cross-cultural environment. By analyzing 1333 questionnaire feedback of students from Philippines public universities, this study investigates the level of CQ of the undergraduate students and the relationship between CQ and perceived employability among undergraduate students. The results show that students have a high metacognitive CQ and a low cognitive level. A Moderate and positive relationship was found between CQ and employability among students. There is a significant relationship between CQ and employability that increases the level of CQ. As such, we recommend that universities and colleges invest in improving the students’ cultural intelligence to improve their performance in cross-cultural environments and design appropriate programs in the school curriculum to develop their CQ.

Keywords: cultural intelligence; perceived employability; public universities; higher education institution (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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DOI: 10.2991/978-94-6463-008-4_51

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