In culturally diverse career settings, some designers are performing more effectively than others. The competence and intelligence behind their performance are crucial to sustainable career development in the highly competitive and globalized design industry. We believe that cultural intelligence (or CQ as a shorthand label) is highly required in such cross-cultural design situations, and it could be trained and improved through design education. Therefore, to better prepare students in design colleges for sustainable career development, we extend and assess the CQ model in design education. We begin the study by determining the demographic differences of design students in terms of CQ, then clarify associations between CQ and competitive advantage. The results of variance analyses using both a t-test and ANOVA showed that education level had a significant effect on two dimensions of CQ (cognitive and motivational CQs), whereas gender, age, and design field did not have significant effects on any dimensions of CQ. Further, step-wise regression analyses demonstrated that three dimensions of CQ (motivational, metacognitive, and behavioral CQs) had significant impacts on competitive advantage. Based on these results, theoretical and practical implications, as well as suggestions for future studies, are further discussed.Sustainability 2020, 12, 10 2 of 23 different cultural understandings about being, knowledge, participation, and life beyond the design project [4]. Designers should bear in mind that individuals are conditioned by their culture; therefore, cultural influence should be applied as a requirement when designing for multicultural users [3].The design industry is highly competitive. For individual designers, competitive advantage is required to a significant degree in the fierce design industry. The influential Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) issued by the United Nations address "decent work and economic growth" as one of the 17 goals to be achieved for a better and more sustainable future for all [5]. As a contributor to career sustainability, sustainable career competitive advantage is the ability to maintain constant improvement and development in career paths. Therefore, we believe that sustainable career competitive advantage is positively related to decent work and economic growth, thus requiring more attention to a sustainability blueprint. Theoretically originating from economics and management, competitive advantage is the competence employees possess to meet the requirements that employers and the labor market consider to be attractive [6]-a job performance that is better than competitors [7,8], the ability to achieve self-value and improve oneself through fulfilling the task [8,9], accomplishments to guarantee sustainable career survival and development [10], and a combination of various abilities and skills required to choose and engage in a career [11]. Therefore, the ability and competence to perform effectively in culturally diverse settings will be a significant competitive advantage ...

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Abstract. Today, social media opens up multiple options to add a new channel to learn and obtain knowledge. In particular, social media allows users to learn formal and informal social settings. Users can find like-minded people or community and organize knowledge exchange for educational or other purposes. This paper takes the theory of social network and social capital as the core factors to explore social media community members how to use social media platform to exchange knowledge. The paper uses social network and social capital as predictors of knowledge exchange so that we can use social media as a way to advance knowledge exchange ceaselessly. Therefore, there were 263 members of well-known social media community of knowledge exchange filling out the questionnaires completely, and then evaluated with structural equation modeling, and confirmatory factor analysis was also applied, using SmartPLS 2.0, to test if the empirical data conform to the proposed model. However, results also imply that social capital and social network distinctly play the important part of affecting knowledge exchange and communication about social issues on social media community goes hand in hand with knowledge exchange. Finally, this article proposes implications for theory and practice on the current and future research.