ELLEN MOORE IN BAHRAIN Samuel Bertin Introduction Ellen Moore was graduated as the to female from her high school when she was only 16 and immediately began working full time for the main branch of one of the largest banks in the country. After graduating with an MBA from leading business school, she had joined her husband, who was working as an expatriate manager at an offshore bank in Bahrain. Ellen begun working at the company. …
showed first 75 words of 921 total

showed last 75 words of 921 total
…This case provides a nice bit on the role of Confucian ideas to help on this. The case is interesting because it shows how a very popular western idea, teams, needs to be modified and limited in outer cultures. Issues of communication, differing expectations and personality also come into play References Anne Marie Francesco & Barry Allen Gold. International Organizational Behavior. Chapter 1, 14 Richard D. Lewis (1999). When Cultures Collide, Managing Succesfully Across Cultures. Part 3 Chapter 10 & 37