Intuition at the heart of Intercultural Management – on the self-conception of Intercultural Managers

Abstract

Nowadays management in organisations and companies has become first and foremost a „management of intercultural complexity“ (Mahadevan 2008a). Intercultural management competence subsequently moves in and between the five dimensions having of experience, sensitivity, skill, knowledge and meta skill intuition in intercultural action contexts and therefore presents itself as strategic competence in international organisational settings. Keywords: intercultural management, intercultural communication, intuition, sensitivity, virtual cooperation