ABSTRACT
This chapter describes the experience of an American company training host-country nationals in the United States (U.S). While both the US company and the trainees have similar objectives, they encounter difficulties in dealing with each other because of their different values, attitudes, achievement motives, educational backgrounds, and criteria of success. Many of the trainees lacked the diagnostic skills to solve the problems that arose during their work on a particular system. Instructing the foreign trainees in identification and use of small tools took three times as long as for a comparable US group. At each location, there was a personnel/training coordinator responsible for receiving, paying, and coordinating the activities of the trainees during their stay in the United States. In 1975, members of a key merchant family from a prominent electronics manufacturing company in the Middle East approached Color Plant, Inc., a major electronics manufacturer in the US, to establish a plant for color television manufacturing in their country.
