Doing business in middle east
Doing business in Middle East
The United Arabs Emirates, a place where people from all over the world come to find success and fame. A place where your dreams can come true but not for everyone. The main reason for these are a lack of ability to adapt into a new culture.
In history, culture differences have always been at the heart of conflicts between people and civilizations. We live in a highly populated world where cultures differ even from city to city. This creates conflicts and misunderstanding. The Middle East there are several factors that are important to the population but they could not seem important to the rest of the world. It is therefore to get informed about the local culture before starting a new business, in this case a high level of emotional intelligence could contribute to succeed.
Starting from the way people act it is essential to make a couple example that would explain how ordinary movements could influence a business deal. As an example passing food with the wrong hand could be seen as an unrespect full movement. In the past local couldn't take a shower every day it was therefore required to have clean hand when eating in order to not get sick. The right hand in the Arabic culture is the hand that needs to be used to touch just the food and not your mouth.
This is just a short example of how the culture of a singular person could totally offend a person from the middle east.
Adding to this there are several difference concerning how the business is seen in the ME. When starting to work with local people is important to understand that the idea of time and deadlines is different than in the rest of the world. However this does not mean that people do not respect deadlines but it wants to emphasize the fact that when a deadline is coming it is important to make sure that the local person you are working with understood that you really need it for that day. Remember, when in an answer you hear “inshallah” (“if god will”)you
The United Arabs Emirates, a place where people from all over the world come to find success and fame. A place where your dreams can come true but not for everyone. The main reason for these are a lack of ability to adapt into a new culture.
In history, culture differences have always been at the heart of conflicts between people and civilizations. We live in a highly populated world where cultures differ even from city to city. This creates conflicts and misunderstanding. The Middle East there are several factors that are important to the population but they could not seem important to the rest of the world. It is therefore to get informed about the local culture before starting a new business, in this case a high level of emotional intelligence could contribute to succeed.
Starting from the way people act it is essential to make a couple example that would explain how ordinary movements could influence a business deal. As an example passing food with the wrong hand could be seen as an unrespect full movement. In the past local couldn't take a shower every day it was therefore required to have clean hand when eating in order to not get sick. The right hand in the Arabic culture is the hand that needs to be used to touch just the food and not your mouth.
This is just a short example of how the culture of a singular person could totally offend a person from the middle east.
Adding to this there are several difference concerning how the business is seen in the ME. When starting to work with local people is important to understand that the idea of time and deadlines is different than in the rest of the world. However this does not mean that people do not respect deadlines but it wants to emphasize the fact that when a deadline is coming it is important to make sure that the local person you are working with understood that you really need it for that day. Remember, when in an answer you hear “inshallah” (“if god will”)you