Cultural Intelligence Scale (CQS)

Subgroup Size

Entire group

Duration

10 minutes

External Cost

No

Source

Ang, S., Van Dyne, L., Koh, C., Ng, K. Y., Templer, K. J., Tay, C., & Chandrasekar, N. A. (2007). Cultural intelligence: Its measurement and effects on cultural judgment and decision making, cultural adaptation and task performance. Management and organization review, 3(3), 335-371. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1740-8784.2007.00082.x
 

The full survey is available as an appendix to the article referenced above.

 

An expanded and updated version of the CQS, which also measures cultural intelligence in domestic diversity contexts as well as one's cultural value orientations on a model derived from Hofstede's research, is available through the Cultural Intelligence Center

This assessment measures: 1. Participants' levels of cultural intelligence based on four factors: motivation (drive), metacognition (strategy), cognition (knowledge), and behavior (action).

Languages Other than English: Spanish (see Notes or Links pages)