We examine the importance of team cultural intelligence (CQ) in multicultural teams that have two common characteristics - teams tasked with creative performance that have culturally different newcomers. Team CQ is conceptualized as a shared cognitive system of cultural capabilities among longer tenured, incumbent members on the team. We argue that this set of team-level cultural cognitive capabilities influences team creativity as mediated by team information elaboration. We incorporate the role of motivation and suggest that team learning goal orientation will enhance the effect of team CQ on team outcomes. At the individual level, we explain how newcomers’ CQ may impact newcomer creativity via their information seeking behaviors. This model suggests that more attention to how team CQ is conceptualized, what motivations are contextually important, and how teams with culturally distinct newcomers incorporate these new members in team processes will be important themes in future CQ research.
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Front Matter
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Part I: CONCEPTUAL BACKGROUND OF CULTURAL INTELLIGENCE
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Part II: MEASURING CULTURAL INTELLIGENCE
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Part III: ANTECEDENTS OF CULTURAL INTELLIGENCE
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Part IV: OUTCOMES OF CULTURAL INTELLIGENCE
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Part V: CULTURAL INTELLIGENCE AND HIGHER LEVELS OF ANALYSIS
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Part VI: LOOKING BACK AND LOOKING FORWARD
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Back Matter
