ABSTRACT
This chapter strongly indicates that complex acculturation could be a significant variable contributing to the chronic poor performance of United Nations Police (UNPOL) missions. While the author is certain that UNPOL productivity is such a complex issue that there is no single cause, each variable that affects UNPOL productivity can have a small effect or a large effect. In the simple acculturation construct, an expatriate worker is sent to another country to work. The expatriate worker must adjust to the societal, organizational, and workplace cultures of the host nation. All of the institutional knowledge and experience gained by the UNPOL officer leaves with that officer upon his or her end of mission. Any lack of operational doctrine is compounded by the issue of national training, which dovetails into the issue of acculturation. The issue of the differences in strategic goals is perhaps the key difference between simple and complex acculturation.
