[Quiz] Business Travel & Cultures

Charlotte Martineau

, 10 November 2016

1) In Japan, you should take someone’s business card:

With your right hand

With both hands

With your left hand

This is a way of showing your respect for the person you are meeting and helps to get your interaction off to a good start.

2) At a business meeting in Russia, you must avoid:

Addressing your associates by their patronymic surnames

Looking people in the eye

Shaking your Russian colleagues' hands in a doorway

They believe this brings bad luck.

3) Gifts are an integral part of doing business in China, but which gift should you avoid at all costs?

Chocolates

A clock

A tie

In Mandarin Chinese, the phrase "to give a clock" (sòng zhōng) sounds the same as a phrase meaning "to send to death"

4) When you talk to Indian associates, they will answer yes to all your questions. This means:

That they are being respectful

That they agree with you

That they will implement all of your requests

5) If you are given a gift in South Korea, your gift in return should be:

More expensive

Of the same value

Less expensive

Be careful not to give gifts that are too expensive, because your associates will then have to be able to match them with their gifts.

6) In Brazil, professional life and private life are:

To be kept separate

Combined in working relationships

Respected at work but people only exchange after building a relationship on the long term.

As a result, it is extremely important for a foreigner to establish interpersonal relationships