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Employees and international business expansion

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Organizations face many challenges as a result of a merger or acquisition. Describe potential challenges that may arise in employee relations and provide recommendations for addressing them to help the combined organization succeed.

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The following posting provides a discussion the problems an organization may encounter when it expands or mergers with a company internationally. The concepts discussed includes cultures, languages, and skills. The explanation is given in 301 words.

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The most obvious in an international situation is language barriers. There should be efforts made to train people to understand that language is an important issue and hire as many bilingual people as possible while making arrangements with local community schools and colleges to teach languages needed.

Cultural differences are a problem. Start times, breaks, meal times are all potential problems in the organizational structure. Foreign entities ...

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