Cultural predictors of decision effectiveness: Experimental study with Argentine peacekeepers

• Autores: Depaula, Pablo Domingo, Azzollini, Susana Celeste
• Formato: artículo
• Fecha de Publicación: 2018
• Institución: Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú
• Repositorio: Revistas - Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú
• Lenguaje: español
• OAI Identifier: oai:ojs.pkp.sfu.ca:article/20473
• Enlace del recurso: http://revistas.pucp.edu.pe/index.php/psicologia/article/view/20473
• Nivel de acceso: acceso abierto
• Materia: Effectiveness; decision making; cultural diversity; culturally intelligent behavior; Efectividad; toma de decisiones; diversidad cultural; conducta culturalmente inteligente; Efficacité; prise de décision; diversité culturelle; comportement culturellement intelligent; Eficacia; tomada de decisão; diversidade cultural; comportamento culturalmente inteligente

The study proposes to explore a model of cultural variables predictive of the effectiveness of decision making in environments whose culture differs from that of decision makers. An intentional non-probabilistic sample was composed of 130 peacekeepers. Participants responded to an experimental decision-making task in situations of high or low saturation of cultural elements typical of the Republic of Haiti (where they would participate in a peace mission under the UN mandate during the subsequent semester), and completed the Cultural Intelligence Scale (CQS; Ang et al., 2007; Depaula adaptation, 2010). A linear stepwise regression analysis indicated that 19.4% of the variance in the effectiveness of decisions made by peacekeepers depends on the cultural behaviors (verbal and non-verbal) that they display and the level of cultural saturation of situations.