Impact of indian culture on expatriates

As India has become the latest investment hub in the world. A major challenge as a part of international assignment is issue of cross-cultural adjustments. Cultural diversity has made India a enigma for expatriates to understand. Therefore, our study aims to examine cross culture challenges faced by the foreign expatriates in India and adjustments made to those challenges. Cultural clashes between foreigners and local people are inevitable in which expatriates find major problem. The findings of this study shows how expatriates make adjustment to such problems with help of their mental strength, and peer support and till what extent companies help them to adjust to domestic environment. The findings of this survey show the inverse relationship between cross cultural adjustments and organizational challenges, which means high adjustments leads to low organizational challenges and vice versa. In order to be successful, MNC's need to understand India culturally and geographically, make relations with HCN's, tie up with local partners who can deal with domestic challenges in best possible way.