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A 20 page paper examining the business culture and business etiquette in Germany and Russia, focusing on those issues that foreign business people should know in order to avoid inadvertently offending business people in either country. The paper includes assessment of each in terms of Hofstede’s cultural analysis as a means of estimating the likelihood of success of an international venture involving these two countries. The scenario in which a German company enters Russia is that most likely to succeed. The German company would need the assistance of Russian influence, but the countries’ people themselves are not that far apart culturally. Russia suffers from the lingering effects of communism, but those effects can be minimized with the creation and maintenance of an effective business culture within the organization. Bibliography lists 17 sources.
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20 pages (~225 words per page)
File: CC6_KSbusEtCulGermRus.rtf
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search: "Your search - Halls Five Elements of the Silent Language of Culture - did not match any documents." Perhaps this is a text-based concept, but it appears not
to be one recognized as a general theory. Substituted Hofstedes methods of evaluating culture. Introduction As close as Germany and Russia are
on the map, they have been and remain far apart in ideology and national and business culture. Actions and social expectations are similar in the two countries, but underlying
attitudes are not. The purpose here is to assess the business and social climate of each nation and to make observations regarding the likelihood of success of a business
venture involving both Germany and Russia. Germany German fortunes have risen and fallen throughout the 20th century, but Germany remains the wealthiest and
most highly populated of all the European nations. Despite its former political divisions, Germany consistently has been known for more than a century for its precision engineering. Whether
the product is Daimler or BMW cars, photographic equipment or Siemens Medical equipment and applications, German engineering has been and remains an envy of much of the Western world.
German engineering remains a marvel of the Western world, however. Business travelers would do well to equate the precision of German engineering to
the manner in which Germans prefer to conduct their business transactions. They are precise in information and punctuality, and a business meeting is just that. It is not
a social occasion; the issue of "small talk" is one foreign to them. Whereas zeroing in on the point of a meeting would be bad form in Japan or
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