Essential Differences between the German and American Business Culture

Seminar paper from the year 2014 in the subject Business economics - Business Management, Corporate Governance, grade: 1,3, Pforzheim University, language: English, abstract: This paper gives a brief overview about essential differences between the German and American business culture. Nowadays business is run globally and does not know any barriers. Trade and access to new markets are expanding, international mergers and acquisitions or joint ventures are increasing, business relations are getting strongly interconnected worldwide. Therefore, managers have to take into account national and international regulations. Employees of multinational companies work in various countries for a certain period, students go abroad as interns in order to gain work and intercultural experiences. Countries all over the world are involved in business issues, includ-ing the differences regarding cultures, societies, and the way of doing business, that creates not only opportunities but represents challenges as well. Through globalization business faces many workplace related cultural differences.

Multiculturalism and hybridity are my roots. Interaction and communication between different cultures have always been an important part of my life. Originally I was born in Kazakhstan and my little daughter has Russian Cameroonian roots. Besides being a passionate traveler, I have spent a year abroad in the USA after graduating high school. Above, I completed one semester in Spain as well as one semester in France during my studies in Marketing Communication (B.Sc.) and Intercultural Studies (M.A.). Through my personal experiences, study background and working field, I know what it means facing new challenges in culture, language, people or regulations. - Vera Karpuschkin