programs and recruitment strategies that will meet personnel needs.
Cultural adaptation can be particularly challenging, but an open, flexible, sensitive, and responsive attitude can do much to facilitate this process. Managing international business operations requires not only the typical or traditional skills of the effective manager, it also requires knowledge of the host country, its culture, and any and all social and governmental rules that impact upon the ways in which business is carried out.
International Business: The Expatriate American Manager
One of the primary requisites of competing in the global marketplace successfully is developing a multicultural, international workforce (Harvey, 1999). To develop this competency, global companies must formulate new strategies for identifying, attracting, motivating, and retaining managerial talent. Unfortunately, as Harvey (1999) has noted, few expatriate managers can cross cultural barriers and become wholly accepted by host country managers
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