European and US MNC's sometimes make the mistake to send younger managers to India to close a deal. This story board describes a common situation these employees may encounter.
Back home..
Thursday morning, 0.50 a.m., KLM flight KL6033Dirk Jan is on his way back to Holland. He is very frustrated and knows for sure he will never do business with Indians again. They are arrogant and they feel that they know everything better.
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Well. To be honest I think that if he would have prepared himself a little bit better and learn about the cultural differences before coming to India, he would have been much less frustrated! I wish him all the best with his international career. Ha, ha.
I don't think Dirk Jan will ever become a good international manager. He is a typical Dutch manager who is send overseas but he is not able to overcome the cultural differences That explains why he is not succesful. Regards,
We realize that some of our observations are biased due to our own cultural backgrounds. We therefore welcome your comments regarding the situations we describe on this blog.
We are part of an international team of MBA students with three different nationalities: Ukrain, French and Dutch. At the beginning of this challenging project we all had our own expectations. During the course of the project we learned to respect each others culture and learned to work in a collaborative way. The end result is this cross-cultural blog.
2 comments:
Well. To be honest I think that if he would have prepared himself a little bit better and learn about the cultural differences before coming to India, he would have been much less frustrated! I wish him all the best with his international career. Ha, ha.
I don't think Dirk Jan will ever become a good international manager. He is a typical Dutch manager who is send overseas but he is not able to overcome the cultural differences That explains why he is not succesful. Regards,
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