A company from a high-context culture that is high in uncertainty avoidance purchases a U.S.-based company. The new owners replace the U.S. management team with managers from their own country. Given that the United States is a low-context culture that is low in uncertainty avoidance, what type of culture clash may occur?
What will be an ideal response?
American workers might violate the new managers’ unspoken social norms and lose favor with their managers. The new managers might be frustrated with American workers who question established procedures and codes of conduct, and American workers might feel restricted by such procedures and codes.
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