| This study, based upon Albert Bandura's (1977) Social Learning Theory (SLT) that multicultural training classes have a positive impact on graduate business students' cross-cultural adaptability, examined the effects of multicultural curriculum offerings/training on the cross-cultural adaptability of university students enrolled in a graduate-level course of study at a school of business in Central Florida, utilizing the Cross-Cultural Adaptability Inventory (CCAI) as the means of assessment. One hundred thirty-four students (n = 134) were distributed equally between two groups, comprising a control and experimental group, to which each group was administered a pre- and post-test CCAI and demographic questionnaire at the beginning and conclusion of the Fall, 2004 academic term. In order to perform an analysis of variance and test the hypotheses, a single factor ANOVA was conducted for each of the four subscales of the Cross-Cultural Adaptability Inventory (CCAI): Emotional Resilience (ER), Flexibility/Openness (FO), Perceptual Acuity (PAC), Personal Autonomy (PA), and the total score for the CCAI, and the results indicated no significant differences between the control and experimental groups' pre-test and post-test scores in any of the four subscale areas of the Cross-Cultural Adaptability Inventory or in the overall cross-cultural adaptability scores for either group. Based on these findings, specific recommendations are provided for future researchers examining the impact of multicultural curriculum offerings/training on the cross-cultural adaptability of university business students. |
