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Understand Indian Culture, and Communicate effectively with Indians
This book is about Indian Culture, focusing on workplace behavior. This book acts as a cross-cultural trainer for non-Indians. It explains the reasons for the typical aspects of Indian Culture while focusing on the Teamwork culture in India.
These cross-cultural ideas are communicated through a fictitious story revolving around an American, managing a software team in India. "John, a young American manager from the IT department of a major retail chain, comes to India to execute an IT project. This is the first overseas assignment for John. Dheeraj, Program Manager at India office, has been entrusted with the responsibility of helping and guiding John.
. This book addresses common issues such as:
* Meeting deadlines at the last minute, in spite of the team working for long hours
* The Yes Sir / Yes Madam culture
* The prevalent Communication problems with Indian teams
* The resistance to use the tools or share the knowledge
* The "Chalta-hai" attitude, etc.
This book helps non-Indians to enjoy interacting with Indians. And it also helps them to work effectively with Indians to get the best out of their collaboration. While explaining the work behavior, it touches upon - Caste system, eating habits, traffic issues, behavior at Elevators etc..
Know the Indian Culture, and Enjoy Working with Indians!
Thota Ramesh
Thota Ramesh is a Software leader by profession and a Counseling Psychologist by passion.
As a Software Project Manager, he had utilized his experience and knowledge of western and Indian cultures to build high performing teams. In this book, he takes the reader through the Indian Cultural aspects at work and provides practical ideas to communicate effectively with Indians and get the best out of Indian teams.
