Passport United Kingdom

Your Pocket Guide to British Business, Customs, and Etiquette

By Timothy Harper

ISBN 1-885073-28-3
US$6.95
96 Pages
Passport United Kingdom contains detailed information about business practices, negotiating styles, customs, etiquette, government, view of foreigners, and much more in the United Kingdom. International businesspeople will discover a wealth of hard-to-find information to help them break through cultural barriers and ease their fears about doing business in the United Kingdom. The book is attractive, portable, easy to read, and short enough to digest in one sitting.

Table of Contents

Overview

Chapter 1: Doing Business Across Cultures

Chapter 2: Country Facts
Chapter 3: The British
Chapter 4: Cultural Stereotypes
Chapter 5: Regional Differences

Business Environment

Chapter 6: Government & Business

Chapter 7: The Work Environment
Chapter 8: Women in Business
Chapter 9: Making Connections
Chapter 10: Strategies for Success
Chapter 11: Time
Chapter 12: Business Meetings
Chapter 13: Negotiating with the British
Chapter 14: Business Outside the Law

Customs & Etiquette

Chapter 15: Names & Greetings

Chapter 16: Communication Styles
Chapter 17: Customs
Chapter 18: Dress & Appearance
Chapter 19: Reading the British
Chapter 20: Socializing
Chapter 21: Entertaining

Additional Information

Chapter 22: Basic British Phrases

Chapter 23: Correspondence
Chapter 24: Useful Numbers
Chapter 25: Books and Internet Addresses

About the Authors

Timothy Harper is an American journalist and lawyer who lived and worked in London for nine years. As a foreign correspondent for U.S. newspapers and magazines, he travels widely throughout Britain, often with his wife, Nancy Bobrowitz, an executive for Reuters, and their two young dual citizens, Elizabeth and Jonathan. He is the author of Cracking the New European Markets (John Wiley & Sons, 1992) and The Good Beer Guide to New York (Running Press, 1995).