A Review of Cultural Intelligence and Its Components and Strategies in Organization: Islamic Perspective

Cultural intelligence is considered as a requisite lever for leaders and managers in current world market. The organizations and managers that realize the strategic value of cultural intelligence can use cultural variety to bring to the market a significant competitive advantage. Cultural intelligence shows managers and other officials how to think and how to work so that they may be able to work more effectively in any cultural area.After explaining the main concepts dimensions, and position of cultural intelligence in their common literature, the present paper investigates and analyzes the principles and features of this intelligence from Islamic viewpoint. Then, it elaborates on some of the Islamic modus operands to exploit cultural intelligence effectively. Finally, it elaborates on the Islamic approach to national and transnational culture and uses Islamic approach to expound some components of cultural intelligence.This paper aims at investigating cultural intelligence and its components in organizational interactions and relations by using Islamic approach. This research uses an analytical-descriptive method which is also based on Quran, traditions and meditating and deliberating on the sayings and lifestyle of the infallible Imam.