What challenges do foreign nationals typically encounter when working in the United States?
A. Business barriers may arise because of cultural differences, misunderstandings, conflicting corporate cultures or simply personality differences. Based on dozens of interviews with expatriates and foreign nationals living and working in the United States, here are some of the more common challenges they face: “The U.S. is short-term oriented vs. long-term strategic. “What’s In It For Me” is paramount. Americans lose their long-term perspective because they don’t believe they’ll be with a company a long time.” – German Sr. Vice President of Marketing ” A lot of meetings are informal (in the U.S.) and there are no accountabilities. Meetings here are less productive. We discuss the same things in the next meeting.”- British Marketing Manager “Feedback on performance is more blunt and direct in the German/Austrian culture. In the U.S., there’s more sensitivity in how things are communicated here. We come to the point immediately. Here, you talk about it first.” – Austrian Human Resource
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