This article investigates managerial problems in Kuwait. A total of 762 managers participated in the study. Managers perceived that the most important problems are: primacy of personal relationships over work relationships, favoritism and personal loyalty at work, subjectivity in evaluation and...

Addresses the issues of work ethics and work‐related attitudes in the USA and Canada. Two‐hundred‐and‐ten individuals from various organizations participated. The results indicated that US participants were found to be more committed to the Protestant and contemporary work ethic than...

The Arab world has been a centre of international attention since the discovery there of oil in the early 1990s. Issues related to Arab management styles, practices and work orientations are neither known nor understood outside the region. Cross cultural negotiations and organization development...