Cultural and language knowledge in international business environment

The objective of this survey is to discover the effects of cultural and language knowledge in the international business environment. This survey is for anyone that has experience working for international organizations or for those who have worked with colleagues from different cultural backgrounds other than their own. The results of this survey will be used to measure the value of people's cultural and language knowledge and what impact it has for a person.

Questionnaire results are available only to the author

What is your gender?

What is your age group?

What is your ethnicity?

Do you work/have you worked in a multinational company?

How strongly do you agree or disagree?

Strongly disagreeDisagreeNeutralAgreeStrongly agree
My organization is open-minded on hiring people from different cultures
I believe cultural knowledge plays a big part in a person's further career
My organization encourages me to include people from different cultural backgrounds
Cultural diversity can impact productivity and profitability
My organization understands the value of hiring people from different countries
I understand why cultural knowledge is important to business
Can people from different cultural backgrounds bring good ideas to the organization?
Do you have relationships/friendships with people from different cultures than your own?
Have you ever experienced cultural shock when traveling to another country?
Do you think cultural shock is useful?
I believe my organization would take certain actions in response to incidents of discrimination
Cultural knowledge helps to boost a company's innovation both socially and economically