The Effectiveness of Using Experiential Learning for Teaching Cross-Cultural Sensitivity to Management Students

Economies all over the world over are driven by knowledge at many levels, the need for and importance of skilled human capital and skill-based training have become paramount to the socio-economic well-being. The current study focuses on the job-ready, employable human capital and its knowledge base. Since the geographical boundaries have blurred, facilitating setting up of multicultural workplaces, the demand for cross-culturally sensitive workforce has risen. The sample consisted of 112 management students in India who were assessed on cross-cultural sensitivity. This pre-test was followed by an exposure to experiential learning (intervention) before administering the post-test assessing cross-cultural sensitivity as a result of experiential learning.