Cross-cultural competency model for digital nomads: a study of digital nomads living in Czech Republic

• Main Author: Simon, Koci
• Publication Date: 2017
• Format: Master thesis
• Language: eng
• Source: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Download full: http://hdl.handle.net/10071/17381
• topic: Cross-cultural competency model; Digital nomads; Czech Republic; Culture; Gestão internacional; Desenvolvimento de competências; Tecnologia digital; Cultura; Multiculturalismo; Avaliação; República Checa

The goal of this master thesis is to develop a competency model for Digital Nomads and evaluate its components in Czech culture. The research is based on primary and secondary data. Secondary data was collected from relevant literature. The primary data was collected via interview and questionnaire. The quantitative method was used to evaluate the components of the cross-cultural competency model by Johnson, Lenartowicz and Apud (2006). The qualitative research aims to compare the reality of the Digital Nomad experience with the current cross-cultural competency model and to further explore competencies. The research has 4 parts: data collection via interviews and a questionnaire with a sample group of 7 digital nomads from different countries, analysis of data collected during the interviews and questionnaire, evaluation of cross-cultural competencies, identification of crosscultural competencies and the development a of cross-cultural competence model. The dimensions, categories and particular elements of cross-cultural competency model are following: knowledge about informational technology, business and local infrastructure, culture, law and language, skills such as self-management or ability to socialize and aptitudes, personal traits and external factors