Cultural Competence and Corporate Competitive Advantage

The needs for Nigerian organization to pay attention to cultural competence in organization have become necessary because of challenges of cultural competence in work place. Thus the main objective of this paper is to examine the impact of cultural competence on organizational performance. It specifically examined the effect of employee’s behaviour on cultural competence in frozen fish industry in Nigeria in selected companies and the impact of cultural competence on organizational performance. In order to gain insight to these objectives, previous research has been investigated and some main theories have been selected. Through this it has been found that cultural competence is a complex subject that can bring both positive and negative effect to organization competitive advantage. It was recommended amongst others that organizations should not adopt a single-sized approach in cultural competence management. This is because cultural competence varies across organizations and hence requires that strategies be formulated to fit the particular scenario.