One risk of imposing an American work order on employees from other cultural backgrounds is a mutual misunderstanding of each other's concepts of time . Indian workers value a gradual and cyclical sense of time that equally includes work, family, sociability, community, and religion. This runs counter to the fast-paced, hyper-rapid, "cutting corners to get things done" approach to work and life that a U.S. employer may expect of recruits. This description indicates that the Indian culture is a ____ culture.

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Indian culture is described as valuing a gradual and cyclical sense of time, which is characteristic of a polychronic culture where multiple activities are integrated and time is seen as flexible.

One Risk of Imposing an American Work Order on Employees