A formação em competência intercultural do estudante de comércio internacional

Abstract

The competitiveness of global markets has generated a movement in Brazil's economy. Accompanied in the last sixteen years, the country has emerged as one of the protagonists among the main players worldwide. In this flow of growth in emerging countries, there have been transformations in the ways that global transactions occur. These practices include the development of new markets, rounds of negotiations, the opening of distribution centers to expatriate employees to operate in the country where they wish to thrive. For this, it is necessary that there are professionals able to deal with the cultural differences, nuances of customs, obstacles related to the different languages. Among these abilities to deal with these challenges, academics have called these characteristics Intercultural Competence. "In this way, this work analyzes this set of skills in its different dimensions, to ascertain if students of the International Trade course have these competences with them. , it was sought to use a scale already validated in previous studies and to apply it to the students in the form of research. Methodologically, a quantitative questionnaire was used, with survey characteristics applied to the students of the International Trade Course that are of the fourth semester of graduation to verify intercultural competence and proficiency in the English language. It is concluded that students respondents of the research have high cultural competence and English proficiency considered general professional proficiency, supporting the idea that the course meets the objectives proposed in the project manager logical.(sic)