Global competence of employees in Hispanic Enterprises in the south of United States

Mónica Blanco Jiménez; Juan Rositas Martínez; Francisco Javier Jardines Garza

doi:10.29105/rinn8.15-5

Authors

Mónica Blanco Jiménez Autonomous University of Nuevo León
Juan Rositas Martínez Autonomous University of Nuevo León
Francisco Javier Jardines Garza Autonomous University of Nuevo León

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.29105/rinn8.15-5

Keywords:

Education, Global Competence, Hispanic Enterprises

Abstract

Developing interculturally competent students who can compete successfully in the global market is one of the challenges for institutions of higher education in the United States. Some researchers think that Colleges and universities must make a deeper commitment to prepare globally competent graduates. A common assumption is that the processes by which people are educated need to be broadly consistent with the way in which organizations operate in a globalizing environment. With this in mind, we turned to managers of Hispanic enterprises to report whether they believed their employees possess the knowledge, skills, attitudes, and experiences deemed necessary for attaining global competency. We developed a questionnaire based on one created by Hunter (2004) to measure global competencies. We sent them to managers of some Hispanic enterprises who are members of the Tucson Hispanic Chamber of Commerce. In our results we found that employees of the Hispanic enterprises that were targeted do not generally have a high level of global competence according to our indicators.

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