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Expatriation

In: Global Collaboration: Intercultural Experiences and Learning

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  • Martine Cardel Gertsen
  • Anne-Marie Søderberg

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Jimmy is older, he is more senior and he is my boss. And this means that even when we have an argument, we observe the proprieties. […] I speak with him in a polite manner, and I make sure to express myself so that he has a ‘back door’ – if in the end it turns out that what I said was right, I can say: ‘Well, that really was what you meant from the beginning, wasn’t it?’ […] Some of the biggest cultural mistakes I’ve made in China concern situations in which I was right and the solutions I suggested were eventually used, and it was witnessed by others. […] Once I sent out a mail that made it clear that I recommended solution A, and people knew that Jimmy had recommended B. Jimmy called me, very upset: ‘Listen, either I have to cut you down to size or take a major face loss myself – what on earth were you thinking? […] Why did you send a copy of that mail to everyone in the office?’ […] This situation was one of my first eye-openers.

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  • Martine Cardel Gertsen & Anne-Marie Søderberg, 2012. "Expatriation," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Martine Cardel Gertsen & Anne-Marie Søderberg & Mette Zølner (ed.), Global Collaboration: Intercultural Experiences and Learning, chapter 5, pages 77-92, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-1-137-02606-4_5
    DOI: 10.1057/9781137026064_5
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