Education and training of management personnel in developing nations have been patterned after the American system. Unfortunately, efforts at transplanting such knowledge has neglected the cultural nuances unique to the various nations, resulting in incomplete success. Intercultural communication barriers can be posed by such cultural features as…

This guide, which was developed during the B-WEST (Building Workers Entering Skilled Trades) project, includes materials for use in training and providing on-site consultations to contractors, managers, supervisors, office/technical staff, and others in two areas: diversity in the workplace and sexual harassment in the workplace. Part 1, which…

Expatriate managers, especially United States managers working in foreign countries, experience very high failure rates. Costs of these expatriate management failures are very high for the managers, who report personal relationship problems and a fear of career derailment, and for their companies, in terms of opportunity and hard costs. This…