1. Cross-cultural differences in doing business.

To gain trust

To be transparent, clear

To be very warm by nature

To have personal contact

To have power lunches

To go through agenda and hush it out

To come to an agreement

To build a business relationship through networking

To make proposition

Traditional social system

To find an intermediary

To establish good working relationship

To establish mutual trust and respect

2. What is that makes a successful personality? Leadership V. Management.

A successful business person

To know one’s job very thoroughly

To have experience

To have a very good vision

To be capable in making a profit and earning money

To be a tam player

To be very good at managing relationships, understanding people and taking care of them in terms of the best performance

To be ambitious

A good collection of people

To manage the time you spend at work

Work-life balance

To be able to take yourself away from work

3. Human resource development and the functioning. Job satisfaction.

To be the most satisfied

A high level of pay

A large amount of satisfaction with your work

To enjoy promotion opportunities

To need a hierarchy that they feel they can move up through their life

Work long hours

To be self-employed

To run one’s own business

To come from insecurity at work

A typically dissatisfied worker

To commute a long way to work

To fear that he is close to being sacked, close to losing his job

The strongest motivating factors

Job security and insecurity

To motivate people

4. The role of Internet and e-commerce.

To trade electronically, through the Internet

Much wider universe of potential suppliers

Community of customers

Match freelance professionals to organizations looking for particular skills

To have 60000 users of the site

To come to the site

To register

To use the site on a regular basis

To provide business services on-line

To post requirements

To meet an approved supplier

To work through the Smarterwork platform

To bring together clients and suppliers from all over the world

5. Mergers and takeovers.

The essential preparatory steps for a successful acquisition

To have a very clear strategy

To get competitor advantage over the other players in the market

To build a successful position on your own, through investment

To achieve your objective

The current owners

To bring benefits to the company through your ownership

To spend lots of time analyzing the projections for the company to try and arrive at a valuation

To work out your tactics

To ensure the successful integration of the new business

To take the ownership of the company

To combine tat company with your own

To pay absolute attention to the detail in that process

Assets

6. Human resource development and the functioning. The job interview.

Ability to react

Suitability for the position

To have some sort of bearing on the decision

To be neat and tidy

To have good manners

To show a lot of one’s personality

To be prepared for the interview

To have a fairly good knowledge

To become yes-man or yes-woman

To contribute

To get something out of that person

To lay dummy questions

To ask the right questions

To create the right relationship

An adult-to-adult relationship