I think while we are here in Europe and America starting to talk about diversity management it might be a different issue in Asia. Also in Asia the diversity in people might not be like here that there are so many employees from all over the world but mostly from other Asian countries. During my research for some new interesting articles for you guys I found that page and a PPT that very well describes exactly this mentioned topic.

Have fun clicking through the slides!

http://de.slideshare.net/horatjitra/managing-diversity-in-asia-an-intercultural-approach (18.12.2012, 15:50)

Different cultures - changes in profit and loss???

Hey guys,

When I was doing my Practical Training Semester in Spain, I sometimes got really confused with their working habits. I had to enter certain invoices into the system and while doing that I noticed several errors. There were either wrong numbers entered before into the system, or the invoices were not created correctly.
To fix these problems, I asked my boss what to do, and she was just changing the values either on the invoice or in the system, without any thought about how this error might have occured.
As I am really used to the Austrian way of working like focusing on the errors and try to solve them by doublecheck everything you have entered so far into the system, I was really confused by the way the employees in Spain solve these problems...

As the company I worked in, has also subsidiaries in Austria and Germany I think they will often have problems concerning their balance as well as their profit and loss if the subsidiary in Spain is just changing the numbers in the system.

So do you think that working in a multinational company with different cultures could also be a problem concerning the profit and loss??