Thursday, Feb. 1, 2001. The ties are off. Expat managers suffer from a false sense of superiority. They ignore local traditions. They fail to learn from new experiences.
Russian managers have an over-acute sense of nationalism.
They are mistrustful and cynical about the future. They prefer form over substance. And they are ready to take bribes at the drop of a hat. The study, which was presented to the European Business Club on Wednesday, pinpoints a number of misperceptions on both sides of the business community s nationality divide. At the same time, only 28 percent of Russian managers felt the same about the linguistic proficiency of their Western colleagues.