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For organizations, cultural diversity is a major source of synergy though it may also entail  risks  to attitudes and behaviors.

Without limitation, cultural training gives several advantages such as:

• Low number of early returns in international assignments;
• Low relocation cost;
• Improvement in the participant’s intercultural skills;
• Participant’s better use of the assignment abroad;
• Greater adaptability;
• Greater satisfaction of host-nationals who choose to befriend and interact with  the expatriate;
• Decrease in problems between the organization and  family members;
• Increase in client prospection;
• Decrease in cost to organizations with local and international communications;
• Strengthening of organization’s image and trust in local communities...

Source:  Society for Intercultural Education