Culture Shock! Austria - A Survival Guide to Customs and Etiquette

‘Morgenstund’ hat Gold im Mund.’ ‘The early bird catches the worm.’ —Proverb often heard in Austria DOING BUSINESS IN AUSTRIA CH ...

Doing Business in Austria 235 THE ECONOMY Austria’s economy was in shambles following World War II. The Marshall Plan pumped muc ...

236 CultureShock! Austria private competition and prices have fallen. Portions of other publicly-owned firms such as banks, Aust ...

Doing Business in Austria 237 the entire country, and an aluminum plant near the border with Germany that is one of the largest ...

238 CultureShock! Austria Service Sector The entire service sector accounts for the largest percentage of GDP, ringing in at abo ...

Doing Business in Austria 239 visitors by far, and an overwhelming majority of tourists are European. Agriculture Agricultural p ...

240 CultureShock! Austria energy make up the rest. Environmental technologies are also an important aspect of international trad ...

Doing Business in Austria 241 to the process of any business meeting and is a principle adhered to by employees. Appointments sh ...

242 CultureShock! Austria Titles There is a predisposition for the use of titles, handed down from the Habsburgs. Although the l ...

Doing Business in Austria 243 Sie In addressing one another, one’s boss is either Mr (Herr) or Ms (Frau), followed by the family ...

244 CultureShock! Austria of hers while she was studying, to the informal per Du with the same teachers after she herself was ac ...

Doing Business in Austria 245 unemployment and disability insurance, the system provides well for families by way of family allo ...

246 CultureShock! Austria the invention: we have never done that before; we have always done it another way; or, if we accept yo ...

Doing Business in Austria 247 running. Employment as a clerk doesn’t require much education, and many clerks are hired for socia ...

248 CultureShock! Austria Service? Was ist das? Service is still a foreign word to many government offices, stores, restaurants ...

‘The straight line is ungodly.’ —Friedensreich Hundertwasser, architect and artist FAST FACTS CHAPTER 10 ...

250 CultureShock! Austria Official Name Republic of Austria Flag Three equal horizontal bands of red (top), white (middle) and r ...

Fast Facts 251 Föhn: These are warm, dry winds that come from the Alps. They are strongest in Tyrol but can be felt all the way ...

252 CultureShock! Austria Slovaks and Romany. (In order to be an officially-recognised ethnic group, its members need to have li ...

Fast Facts 253 Exports Machinery and equipment, motor vehicles and parts, paper and paperboard, metal goods, chemicals, iron and ...