Adaptive performance on military assignment effectiveness among leaders deputed on United Nations missions

• Main Authors: Al Shdaifat, Fayez Hamed, Sri Ramalu, Subramaniam, Subramaniam, Chandrakantan
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2013
• Subjects: HD28 Management. Industrial Management
• Online Access: http://repo.uum.edu.my/17691/1/GBERJ%202%207%2028-40.pdf; http://repo.uum.edu.my/17691/; http://journal.globejournal.org/index.php/GBERJ/article/view/83
• Institution: Universiti Utara Malaysia

The establishment of United Nation Security Council has witnessed the increase in international peace keeping missions to maintain peace and security among conflicting countries.In the modern peace keeping missions, adaptive performance has been identified as a critical dimension of job performance for military leaders. Military leaders not only working in new cultural environment, but also will be interacting with locals with different cultural values and expectations.Thus, this conceptual paper focus on the cross cultural competences as the determinant of adaptive performance among military leaders on peace keeping missions.Approach: The literature was explored to acknowledge the accessible relationships among cross cultural competence (Culture intelligence, Emotional intelligence, Social intelligence and language proficiency) and adaptive performance among military leaders deputed on United Nations peace keeping missions. Conclusions: This conceptual paper provides an updated review of the literature on cross culture competences and adaptive performance. The practical implications as well as academic contributions were also presented.