This chapter aims to analyze the socio-intercultural management competencies as they are integrated in any organizational setting, including individuals, groups, and communities. In the analysis, it is assumed that the development of socio-intercultural management in the organizations requires the integration of the socio-intercultural principles building competencies in transdisciplinary contents in current social issues, concerns, and solutions of problems of the organizations and society. The method employed is the analytical focusing on a reflective and comparative analysis of the literature reviewed and their achievements in practical implementation in the real managerial world. It is concluded that awareness of cultural differences for organizational management sustainability are the base for the development of socio-intercultural management competencies required in the new glocal labor market environment.
TopThe Socio-Intercultural Concept
In order to specify the socio-intercultural concept is necessary to start from Bourdieu (2007), who conceives that society is structured with two types of relationships: socials, the ones of strength, referring to the value of uses and changes and that encompasses, entwined, other types of relationships such as the ones of sense, which are responsible for the organization of the relationships of meaning in social life; these last ones, in his perspective, are the ones that constitute culture. Society “is conceived as the ensemble of structures somewhat objectives that organize the distribution of the production media and power between individuals and social groups, and that determine social, economic and political practices” (García, 2004, p. 32).
On the other hand, culture is the result of the interactions between society and nature, through social processes of material and spiritual production. Culture manifests itself in the behavior of human beings that belong to the same culture. In fact, the cultural, intracultural and intercultural processes are phenomena that the dynamics of societies cannot control; In other words, the cultural relationship between peoples as an equitable, congruent, responsible and tolerant act is a noble intention and an elusive purpose. Furthermore, interculturalism and multiculturalism are polysemic concepts that have acquired different meanings and connotations, depending on the context and policies of the welfare state (Vargas-Hernández, et. al., 2017).