Passport USA

Your Pocket Guide to American Business, Customs, and Etiquette

By Dean Engel

ISBN 1-885073-15-1
US$6.95
96 Pages
Passport USA contains detailed information about business practices, negotiating styles, customs, etiquette, government, view of foreigners, and much more in the United States. 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 States. 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 Americans
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 Americans
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 Americans
Chapter 20: Entertaining
Chapter 21: Socializing

Additional Information

Chapter 22: Basic American Phrases

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

About the Authors

Dean Engel was a member of the faculty of New York University for many years and is the author of Global Human Resource Development (Prentice Hall, 1993). In Japan, Dean taught English at Tokyo Kyoiku Daigaku (Tokyo Education University) and at Fukushima University. He was also a teacher trainer for the Toyama Prefectural Board of Education. Dean is the Managing Director of The East West Group, Inc., a consulting firm located in Mill Valley, California, specializing in cross-cultural business and human resource development.

Larry K. Peterson is a New York-based wordsmith who writes about art, history, the media, popular culture, sports and dogs. A former editor of Fodor's Travel Guides, he has recently edited The Truckers' Road Atlas, The USA Today Golf Atlas, and Fodor's/USA Today Four Sports Stadium Guide.