Besides cultural differences, what other factors might affect human resource management with this international office?

Assuming you are Ludmilla responding to a recent email from Juanita (ATTACHED), answer the following questions:

 

• Besides cultural differences, what other factors might affect human resource management with this international office?
• What abilities will help Juanita succeed and potentially fail in this assignment as an expatriate?
• What has been the reason for the high failure rate of expatirate managers in Uzbekistan? What can Ludmilla do to increase the success of expats?
• Since Uzbekistan has been significantly influenced by Russia for over 70 years, from Hofstedes perspective, what impact has culture had on appraisal systems, self- managing teams, and systems for gathering suggestions from workers?