Culture and Human Resource Management Name: Institution: Every business is affected by various factors that are dependent on the culture of the country where the business is located it is therefore crucial for one to do an analysis and research on the cultural background of the inhabitants of any given economic environment. This calls for human resource to consider a numbers of things in determining whether it is worth investing in a particular country or not. This paper will be looking into some of the values affecting businesses in different countries. In this case there will be a comparison between United States of America focusing on masculinity, power distance, uncertainty and individualism. There are also the implications of the differences on any business in the two countries and pitfalls that an American business