It's " Why Japanese Hate Working with Foreigners". A lot of the points raised (aside from not ordering a different drink) are similar to expectations in a lot of other places.
The main difference i've had working at a foreign company isn't that the expectations as fundamentally different, it's the ability to communicate understandings.
If you go school in the USA, people have learned the process of first draft, second draft, revision, editing, final. With asian countries the same process isn't applied. So you hand something in as a draft, and your boss gets mad because they're expecting the final when all you did is drop it on their desk.
So you can ask, "this is a draft, do you like the points?", "what are the priorities of what needs to be conveyed?", "when is the final draft needed internally". To be able to negotiate these differences. It's what you would be doing in any company, these are just more fine tuned soft skills that you need to have to cross cultural domains.
It's " Why Japanese Hate Working with Foreigners". A lot of the points raised (aside from not ordering a different drink) are similar to expectations in a lot of other places.
The main difference i've had working at a foreign company isn't that the expectations as fundamentally different, it's the ability to communicate understandings.
If you go school in the USA, people have learned the process of first draft, second draft, revision, editing, final. With asian countries the same process isn't applied. So you hand something in as a draft, and your boss gets mad because they're expecting the final when all you did is drop it on their desk.
So you can ask, "this is a draft, do you like the points?", "what are the priorities of what needs to be conveyed?", "when is the final draft needed internally". To be able to negotiate these differences. It's what you would be doing in any company, these are just more fine tuned soft skills that you need to have to cross cultural domains.