Collaborating across cultures: Cultural metacognition and affect-based trust in creative collaboration

By Roy Y J Chua, Michael W. Morris, Shira Mor. 2012

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We propose that managers adept at thinking about their cultural assumptions (cultural metacognition) are more likely than others to develop affect-based trust in their relationships with people from different cultures, enabling creative collaboration. Study 1, a multi-rater assessment of managerial performance, found that managers higher in metacognitive cultural intelligence (CQ) were rated as more effective in intercultural creative collaboration by managers from other cultures. Study 2, a social network survey, found that managers lower in metacognitive CQ engaged in less sharing of new ideas in their intercultural ties but not intracultural ties. Study 3 required participants to work collaboratively with a non-acquaintance from another culture and found that higher metacognitive CQ engendered greater idea sharing and creative performance, so long as they were allowed a personal conversation prior to the task. The effects of metacognitive CQ in enhancing creative collaboration were mediated by affect-based trust in Studies 2 and 3.

Subfields: Communication, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Social Psychology

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Identifying and Training Adaptive Cross-Cultural Management Skills: The Crucial Role of Cultural Metacognition (2013, background): “This cognitively oriented intervention is distinct from affectively oriented interventions in past work on intercultural collaboration (Chua et al., 2012).”
The Impact of Culture on Creativity (2015, background): “Prior research has established that individual differences, such as cultural metacognitive ability (Chua, Morris, and Mor, 2012), overseas experience (Maddux and Galinsky, 2009), and multicultural experiences (Leung and Chiu, 2008, 2010), matter for creativity.”
Examining Cultural Intelligence and Cross-Cultural Negotiation Effectiveness (2015, background): “Cultural intelligence presents a unique framework to study how individuals successfully adapt “in unfamiliar surroundings” (Earley et al., 2006, p. 5). CQ not only represents the cultural knowledge that one possesses and behavioral flexibility but also the ability to reason and act on observations a”
Enhancing Cultural Intelligence: The Roles of Implicit Culture Beliefs and Adjustment (2017, background): “…job performances in intercultural contexts (Ang et al., 2007; Chen et al., 2012), intercultural negotiation, and intercultural collaboration (Chua et al., 2012; Imai & Gelfand, 2010) to expatriate effectiveness (Chen et al., 2010), and change in behavioral CQ could serve as a precursor of…”
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