Successful expatriate assignments are vital to multi national companies‟ (MNCs) development. The significant impediment of expatriate‟s success in the host country is the cultural adjustment. One way to enhance adjustment is to provide employees with the necessary knowledge, expectations and skills through cross-cultural training (CCT). The study aims to demonstrate the importance of cultural adjustment towards an expatriate assignment success, to test the efficiency of cross-cultural training provided by MNCs and find ways to improve cultural adjustment thought a more efficient cross-cultural training (CCT). Twenty two US and British expatriates were interviewed for the purpose of this study. The study contributes to the literature on the importance of cultural adjustment and the failure of MNCs to provide effective CCT. Suggestions for CCT improvements such as structured pre- and post departure training with site specific information, foreign language skills, mentoring and other ideas derived from the interviews are presented.
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