Recruiting, Retaining and Promoting Culturally Different Employees

            

Prologue

The human experiment gets more interesting all the time. The ways of foreigners are becoming our ways and our ways are becoming the ways of foreigners to an extent never seen before. The migration of earthlings is bringing us face-to-face with more culturally different people than ever before. Alongside the trends of adaptation and integration, there exists the equally strong phenomenon of cultures holding their own while interacting with others. For the authors, this fusion, clashing, and coevolution of cultures is fascinating and important. The future of work and the workplace will be changed by it, as will all aspects of society.

As a chemical engineer, Dr. Lionel Laroche worked for Procter & Gamble for a number of years ...