Rethinking Manager’s Core Competence Paradigm by Integrating Intercultural Competence at Its Heart

Abstract Manager’s role has become more complex along the decades due to social, economic and political changes that affected business worldwide. This paper is part of a larger project highlight importance intercultural competence as core management in an era globalization, workforce cultural diversity, international business, worldwide connectivity. Based on thorough bibliographic investigation including books, statistics, relevant literature journals, articles, research studies, meta-analysis, mega-trends analysis, we demonstrate need review most important trends paradigms for better understanding manager’s time at present bring arguments support paradigm by integrating its heart. By direct observation informal interviews with managers working multinationals exposed multicultural environment, collected presented several case studies our show successful should possess competency order manage cross-culturally their teams’ wellbeing efficiency company productivity.