EDUCATION FOR SUCCESSFUL INTERCULTURAL COMMUNICATION AND CULTURAL INTELLIGENCE

Intercultural intelligence is the capability to function effectively in culturally diverse settings and consists of different dimensions (metacognitive, cognitive, motivational and behavioural) which are correlated to effectiveness in global environment (cultural judgment and decision making, cultural adaptation and task performance in culturally diverse settings). The purpose of the article was to check the relationship between knowledge and experiences of intercultural communication and the score of cultural intelligence. The sample consists of 107 students from Faculty for commercial and business science Celje; they answered the questionnaire of education on Intercultural communication and the Cultural intelligence scale (Ang, Dyne and Koh, 2006). The results show that the number of intercultural knowledge sources, number of foreign languages knowledge, frequency of communication with persons from other cultures in private and business time and frequency of international travels correlate significanly with the score of Cultural intelligence scale and its dimensions.