Relationship between Nurse's Cultural Intelligence

Cultural intelligence is an important factor in interaction among various ethnic groups and environments. cultural intelligence may affect job performance.This study examined the relationship between cultural intelligence and job performance of nurses in Eghbal hospital in Tehran,Iran. A descriptive correlational design was used. Sample of the research consisted of 70 nurses with at least 1 year of work experience which were randomly selected.Data were collected by using 2 questionnaires: 1- modified Ang and colleagues (2004) questionnaires for cultural intelligence which was translated by Kazimi (2010) and 2- Employee performance questionnaire which was developed by Kazemi (2010) with the reliability of the 0.81. Data were analyzed by SPSS software using Pearson correlation, Multiple regression and Analysis of variance tests. Results of the study showed that: although there was no significant correlation between total cultural intelligence scores and job performance of nurses but when examining the relationship between cultural intelligence sub categories and job performance a significant correlation was found between behavioral cultural scores with job performance. There was a significant difference between male and female nurses in term of total score of cultural intelligence. Job performance scores was significantly correlated with educational level. The results showed tthat behaviorialintelligence may mediate the relationship between cultural intelligence and performance in nurses. Gender was correlated with Cultural Intelligence and educational level was correlated with job performance in nurses.