Business+Culture+-+Marion

For Marion:

Last summer, I worked at Bertelsmann‘s Corporate Center in New York. I was the assistant to Bertelsmann, Inc.'s CEO and President. Therefore, I attended a lot of meetings with executives, etc.

I am convinced this is a great opportunity to present differences that I perceived personally between the German and the American Corporate Center - such as the communication between employees, working habits, etc. This complements ideally Anna, Mareike and Wiebke's findings in the literature on his topic. And since no one else in the class has ever been to Bertelsmann, Inc. I think this will interest everybody.

I will present one slide with general information on Bertelsmann, Inc. Additionally, I will present 4 different main points (see below) and will directly show the differences between Bertelsmann, Inc. and Bertelsmann AG. My part will last approximately 10 minutes and I plan on presenting one slide per main point, therefore 5 slides in total.

The main points will refer to differences concerning:

1) Equipment (Technical devices, rooms, furniture etc.) 2) Hierarchy (Treatment of colleagues / boss, status symbols etc.) 3) Behavior (Cooperativeness, Socializing, Openness towards new colleagues etc.) 4) Working hours (Lunch break, commuting to work, number of days off work etc.)

My sources are my own experiences and interviews with my former American colleagues.

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