Mgmt 4150 International Management Assignment

MGMT 4150 INTERNATIONAL MANAGEMENT
PERSONAL INTERVIEW ASSIGNMENT

Table of Contents
1.0 Introduction.............................................................................................................3
2.0 Discussion..............................................................................................................3
2.1 Unexpected Differences......................................................................................3
2.2 Culture Shock......................................................................................................4
2.3 Difficulty...............................................................................................................4
2.4 Dream..................................................................................................................5
2.5 Cultural Differences.............................................................................................5
3.0 Analysis (Using Hofstede's Value Dimensions Scale)...........................................5
4.0 Conclusion..............................................................................................................7
References...................................................................................................................8
Appendices...................................................................................................................9
Appendix – 1: Questionnaire.....................................................................................9
Appendix – 2: Scanned Business Card....................................................................9
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1.0 Introduction
The issues generally people may face shortly after coming to a foreign country either
for the long-term or on the permanent basis, may form an integral part of the study of
international HRM (Frampton, Zafar, Bohara & Steinberg, 2016). In the instant paper,
the effort has been made by the researcher to identify a person who has come to the
USA from an outside country and stayed here for past 10 years; and undertake a
personal interview with the person to assess the various issues or challenges the
person may face post-visit to foreign soil.
The name of the person is Mr. Rajib Banerjee. He is a Bengali and born and brought
up in Kolkata, India. He works in the Constructions Services Limited (CSL), an US
based construction company. Rajib works here as a Civil Engineer. He is 44 years
old now and he had come here permanently almost 10 years back in their office in
Omaha. His position here is of a senior manager looking after projects
implementation program. He stays within the nearby locality of Omaha only and the
researcher has met with him personally to undertake personal interviews with him.
2.0 Discussion
The extracts of the interview have been discussed below and the detailed interview
questionnaire has been attached in the appendix section of the paper.
2.1 Unexpected Differences
Once he came to the USA around 10 years back, the very first difference he found
as compared to his home country was the concept of US people smoking. Before
coming here, his pre-conceived notion was that the people in the US do smoke at a
regular rate; though the rate is lower than that of India, still people do smoke
regularly. However, coming here, he found that the smoking rate drastically lower
here as compared to Kolkata, his home town in India. He was saying that he got
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