Dealing With Cross-Cultural Differences at Workplace in the UAE OR Impact of Cross-Cultural Differences On Adjustment of Expatriate Employees in the Work Environment of the UAE INTRODUCTION / LITERATURE REVIEW The working environment in the UAE has seen huge changes in the last 25 years or so. The change has been introduced primarily by the opening up of multinational firms in the UAE. This has created job opportunities for expatriates‚ therefore bringing about a large diversity in the
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Cross-Cultural Differences Problems and Solutions The good news Multinational companies have the great advantage of working in and with different cultures to make their products and services accessible to a far wider community. The impetus for reaching beyond their own borders makes commercial sense. The less good news When multinationals develop into or with other countries there may be an assumption that because everyone within the company is working for the same goals and to the same values
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noises that exist during a communication process. Also‚ every person has their own piece of mind on different issues; thus‚ conflicts and criticism are most likely to occur. The world is separated into many countries and that is enough to create a cultural or even a communication gap between people of different locations. My first encounter with such situation was when I started to exchange e-mails and phone calls with my cousin Jenny. Jenny had not the slightest clue of how Malaysia is as she was
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The international market is the primo situation for all companies‚ even though almost every organization experiences growth as time passes. The main goal of almost every big business is to be able to reach the largest market and enable growth; the international market. There are many different things that international markets bring to an organization‚ advantage wise‚ for instance a bigger brand name‚ international market shares‚ investors‚ or even growth that will allow the capability to be able
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Researches attempted to explains of motivition to work through two basic types of motivational theories and process theories. Content theories are concerned with what energizes behavior while process theories focus on how. Content theories asset that needs determine an individual’s behavior‚ individuals have a multitude of need varying degrees of intensity. There are needs or activator creates a state of disequilibrium within the person. The individual develops an urge to fulfill the need or needs
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and business involves hard work. (Hendon‚ Hendon & Herbig 1996) Negotiations are a frequent part of international business. Parties involved in a negotiation face different problems in reaching a successful outcome. When parties have different cultural backgrounds the faced problems becomes even more complex. Negotiation is a process to manage relationships. It is a basic human activity that exists between husband and wife‚ children and parents‚ employers and employees‚ buyers and sellers and
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htm Cross-cultural management in China Keyong Dong School of Public Administration‚ Renmin University of China‚ Beijing‚ China‚ and Cross-cultural management in China 223 Ying Liu Institute of Organization and Human Resource‚ School of Public Administration‚ Renmin University of China‚ Beijing‚ China Abstract Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to: summarize the major research that has been conducted regarding cross-cultural issues in China; show the current practices on cross-cultural
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Cross-Cultural Organizational Behavior Annu. Rev. Psychol. 2007.58:479-514. Downloaded from arjournals.annualreviews.org by University Of Maryland on 12/11/06. For personal use only. Michele J. Gelfand‚1 Miriam Erez‚2 and Zeynep Aycan3 1 Department of Psychology‚ University of Maryland‚ College Park‚ Maryland 20742; email: mgelfand@psyc.umd.edu Technion‚ Israel Institute of Technology‚ Technion City‚ Haifa‚ Israel 32000; email: merez@ie.technion.ac.il Department of Psychology‚ Koc University
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Running head: Introduction to Cross-Cultural Psychology Anne Solomon Diversity and Cultural Factors in Psychology/PSY450 Professor Iman Turner July 3‚ 2011 Introduction to Cross-Cultural Psychology Cross-cultural psychology is the critical and comparative study of the effects on human psychology. Cross-cultural psychology draws its conclusions from at least two samples that represent at least two cultural groups. Because cross-cultural psychology is about comparisons‚ it is crucial
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“Cross-cultural psychology is the study: of similarities and differences in individual psychological functioning in various cultural and ethnocultural groups; of ongoing changes in variables reflecting such functioning; and of the relationships of psychological variables with sociocultural‚ ecological and biological variables” (Berry et al‚ 2012). Defining Cross-Cultural Psychology Berry et al (2012) define their topic using the English language‚ which of itself contains culturally-bound concepts
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