When Parul, an expatriate manager for Castle Mfg., went to work in the company's Thailand operations, she was often frustrated when her staff showed up thirty minutes late for meetings and did not have an explanation for their tardiness. She didn't understand why her staff in Thailand didn't behave like her staff had in the home office. According to Mendenhall and Oddou, an expatriate manager like Parul who tends to treat Thai nationals as if they were home-country nationals lacks the dimension of
A) cultural toughness.
B) self-orientation.
C) power distance.
D) perceptual ability.
E) willingness to communicate.

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Parul lacks perceptual ability, which is the capacity to understand why people of other countries behave the way they do, and to make allowances for these differences.

When Parul, an Expatriate Manager for Castle Mfg