relationship between cultural intelligence and entrepreneurial characteristics of university librarians a case study: Mashhad Academic libraries
This study is conducted aiming to investigate the relationship between cultural intelligence and entrepreneurial characteristics of university librarians in Mashhad who provide services to foreign students.
This investigation is an applied one in terms of purpose which is carried out as a descriptive – analytical survey and two questionnaires were used as the data collection instruments: the Early & Ang's of Cultural Intelligence questionnaire (2007) with the reliability of 0.91 and the Kordnaeij & et al's Entrepreneurial Characteristics questionnaire (2008) with the reliability of 0.94. The population under study consists of all 91 university librarians in Mashhad city who provide services to foreign students in 2015 selected by census method. SPSS software and the descriptive and inferential statistics were used to analyze data.
The Findings indicated that the librarians working in these libraries are in a good status both in terms of cultural intelligence and entrepreneurial characteristics aspects. Furthermore, there is a significant relationship between the librarians' cultural intelligence and their entrepreneurial characteristics as well as between each of the four aspects of cultural intelligence including Metacognitive, Cognitive, Motivational and Behavioral aspects and the librarians' entrepreneurial characteristics. Moreover, results indicate that there is no meaningful difference between the level of cultural intelligence of librarians in terms of education, job experience and field of study and also between entrepreneurial characteristics of librarians in terms of employment status.
there is a meaningful relationship between cultural intelligence and librarians' entrepreneurial characteristics.
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