A global mindset reflects your ability to influence people, groups and organisations from a variety of backgrounds and cultures.5 Multinational companies’ ability to create globally integrated systems depends on their ability to get employees, managers and executives to understand and adapt to the realities of a globalised economy.6 The ability to integrate talent from many parts of the world faster and more effectively than other companies is a source of a firm’s competitive advantage7 as well as your own personal competitive advantage. Please use the following scale in responding to the 10 questions below as honestly as possible. Don’t try to convince yourself of your own worth in each item, instead be raw and open about any shortcomings. When you are finished, follow the scoring instructions at the bottom to calculate your score. Then read more about what your score means, and how you can improve your global mindset. For appropriate perspective, discuss your self assessment with someone from another cultural background.

1 In interacting with others, I assign equal status to people regardless of their national origin.
2 I consider myself as equally open to ideas from other countries and cultures as I am to ideas from my own country and culture of origin.
3 Finding myself in a new cultural setting is exciting.
4 I see the world as one big marketplace.
5 When I interact with people from other cultures, it is important to me to understand them as individuals.
6 I regard my values to be a hybrid of values acquired from multiple cultures as opposed to just one culture.
7 I am very curious when I meet someone from another country.
8 I enjoy watching foreign films in their original language.
9 In this interlinked world of ours, national boundaries are meaningless.
10 I believe I can live a fulfilling life in another culture.
Scoring: Add up your responses to identify your global mindset score.
Interpretation: Because experiences influence global mindset in a positive or negative manner,8 you can take steps to improve your global mindset. Based on your score, you might consider some of the personal development activities identified below, or you might come up with others. If your score is between 10 and 20, you have a relatively low global mindset. Formal training/educational programs, self-study courses, university courses, or in-company seminars or management development programs can help you to increase your global mindset. If your score is between 21 and 35, you have a moderate global mindset. You do not exhibit extremely high parochialism, but at the same time you are not as open to people from other cultures as you could be. In addition to the self-development activities listed above, you might consider joining some culturally diverse student organisations and making a point of befriending some people from other cultures to gain more experience and become more comfortable with people from other cultures.
If your score is between 36 and 50, you have a high global mindset. This means that you are open to meeting people from a variety of cultures, and are comfortable with global diversity. This does not mean you cannot improve further! Joining international student organisations, working with international volunteer organisations and befriending people from a variety of cultures will further develop your global mindset.

After completing the self-assessment, answer the following questions:
1 Do you think that your score accurately reflects your global mindset? Why or why not? What, if anything, is missing from the assessment?
2 How do you think that having a higher global mindset will help you to be a better manager and leader? How can this characteristic help you succeed in your career?
3 What might you do in the next year to increase your global mindset? Identify and discuss three specific behaviours, activities or other things that increase your global mindset.

Transcribed Image Text:

Strongly disagree Disagree Neutral Agree Strongly agree 1 2 3