Global Competency

Running head: Global Competency

Global Competency

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Rick
Dave

Bus 504

December 1, 2009
Abstract

What is Global Competency? Why is it important? What issues are we going to discuss in this paper?

NOTE: Paper to have four sections:

ONE: a statement of the problem\issue that you plan to address in the paper.

TWO: This will be a review of the relevant literature related to your research problem\issue listed in Section one. You MUST have at least TEN! Academic references from academic journals for this review

THREE: Here you will engage in a creative analysis of how the literature explains or answers the problem\issue from Section ONE. It is ok to integrate this into section TWO. FOUR: This is the section in which you draw conclusions. Have your questions been answered? How have you contributed to a further understanding of the issues? What are the limitations of what you did? What needs to be done by others to advance our knowledge in the area?

Global Competency

Global Competency is a new buzzword that has come about as a result of the globalization of the Planet. The world has become flat. The era of mass communication has made the world a much smaller place in which to live, play and work. We now interact with people around the world on a daily basis. It is critical that we must change and become prepared or “Globally Competent”, or fall behind. So what is Global Competency? In an article entitled Global Competency: educating the world, Fernando M. Reimers states, "Global Competency comprises the knowledge and skills that help people understand the flat world in which they live, the skills to integrate across disciplinary domains to comprehend global affairs and events, and the intellect to create possibilities to address them. Global competency also includes fostering an attitude that makes it possible to interact

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