ABSTRACT
Transgovernmental fora of subcabinet officials are responsible for negotiating and executing the broad policy programs agreed at the intergovernmental level. Their backgrounds, experience, and career circumstances are brought to the numerous interactions among EU and US officials, whose orientations may be quite different. Exploring respective values, attitudes, and beliefs of officials in the Atlantic Community offers insights into human resource issues and suggests the need for boundary-spanning skills, cross-cultural training, and managerial reorientation. This chapter uses administrative culture as an explanatory concept to understand differences and similarities between two partners: US federal officials and their counterparts in the European Commission.
