Assessing the Influence of Project Manager's cultural Intelligence (CQ) on Project team dynamics. A case of China-Kenya projects

Globalization and international activities of organizations have increased the cross-cultural interaction and business links, which in turn have resulted in the need for knowledge and competence about different culture in a project team. Within such team dynamics, the success of the project managers who are in charge of cross-cultural teams projects activities depends on their Cultural intelligence. Recent studies reveal that project managers' Cultural intelligence helps him or her to cope with multi-cultural situations, to perform in culturally diverse work teams, facilitate effective cross-cultural adjustment to manage culture shock, decision making and influence project team dynamics. This study particularly investigates the role of project manager's Cultural intelligence in influencing team dynamics and further identifies the needs for future research regarding this research direction in Kenya and other parts of the world. This study also explores the role of various dimensions of cultural intelligence in influencing project team dynamics, while considering others factors that influence team dynamics available in literature such as age, gender, previous experience and level of education as control variables.