Cross-cultural Challenges in International Management

13Are Intercultural Competences at the Center of Job-Market Demands?

Sophie Wodociag, Axelle Lutz and Chiara Ghislieri

Introduction

Globalization and pressure to innovate are pushing companies to further open up to the international sector, which in turn is driving a transformation of organizational structures (Doz et al., 2001) and changing the organizational pattern (Mayrhofer, 2011). This phenomenon implies a growing need for international human resources, diversification of mobility assignment mechanisms (Petrovic et al., 2000) and development of new competences, including intercultural competences (Spitzberg and Changnon, 2009). Employees need to deal with evolution in job conceptualization, like lifetime employment, nomad careers ...