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Lesson 2: The Intercultural Development Inventory: An Approach for Assessing and building
Intercultural Competence by Hammer
 Acme Pharmaceutical Company formally agreed to a limited partnership arrangement
with Jaca Marketing of Japan
 introduce a line of pharmaceutical products in Japan
 Issue between American and Japanese business people
IDI
 50-item paper and pencil (and online) questionnaire with selected demographics that
can be completed in about 15 to 20 minutes
 Our open-ended “contexting” questions individual respondents may complete
 IDI analytic structure generates an individual (or group) graphic profile of the
respondent's overall position on the intercultural development continuum
 Identifies specific orientations toward cultural differences that range from
 more monocultural perspectives to more intercultural mindsets
 a progression from a less complex perception of and consequently a less complex