Liderazgo global: Incidencia de la movilidad internacional en la adquisición y desarrollo de competencias interculturales en estudiantes universitarios del Ecuador.
Thesis
Intercultural competences linked to global leadership and its possibilities for development in higher education have been studied mainly in developed countries. In emerging countries, such as Ecuador, its approach has been incipient, probably due to difficulties in its conceptualization and measurement. The main objective of this research was to evaluate, within the framework of global leadership, the influence of international mobility on the acquisition and development of intercultural skills in university students from Ecuador. For this, two mixed studies were carried out; the first one started from a qualitative phase in which through two focus groups with directors of Ecuadorian universities, they conceptualized around intercultural competences and what they hoped to develop in students with the processes of international mobility. The results were subjected to categorical analysis. Subsequently, the quantitative phase was carried out in which the Intercultµral Developmént Index (IDI) was applied to 311 students of first and last years of training, in order to control the development of said competences by time and not mobility. The second study began with the quantitative phase, in which a pre-test and post-test quasi-experimental design was implemented with a control group. The IDI scale was used for this. Subsequently, the qualitative phase was carried out, the qualitative phase was carried out, in which focus groups were developed in order to deepen the findings obtained in the experimental and control groups. According to the results obtained, international mobility processes promote the development of intercultural competences in students, thus contributing to the formation of global leaders from the field of higher education in countries such as Ecuador.
