Israel and America repay each other with exchange of technology and defense systems against the enemies of western civilization.
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Many tech giants have divisions in Israel, including HP, Motorola, Dell and Qualcomm. Israeli technology is so deeply ingrained in the daily office life of Americans, most donÂ’t even know that what theyÂ’re using was designed by an Israeli: Instant Messenger; the latest Intel chips; cell phones; Windows NT software; voice mail; computer firewalls.
The Israeli businesses have the brains, but they are lacking in other areas. The country is several years behind the United States in the areas of workforce management, public relations and marketing. Or, as Almog says, the country is a start-up, and so "unfortunately, to a large extent, it's managed like a start-up, with a lack of discipline and a lack of procedures."
Workforce-management executives here crave information from the West. BarronÂ’s and Forbes are sold in bookstores, as you might expect, and at one Jerusalem office of the United Nations, the California-based Workforce Week (associated with this Web site) arrives on Tuesdays. Though some Israelis joke that they live in the "51st state"--working intimately with Americans on business, medical and military projects--life here is very different from that in North America. Starbucks opened up a few coffee shops here but closed them when the prices and taste lacked appeal among the Israelis.
American-style management
There are some Israeli companies with workforce-management practices as sophisticated as some in the United States. One is Partner Communications, a mobile-phone company where Amnon Gideon serves as vice president of human resources.
Partner has 3,108 employees, and trades on the Nasdaq. It is investing about $3 million annually in employee training, and Gideon, a Motorola veteran, is a major player at the company, reporting to the CEO and serving on the senior management team. The company has amenities that rival those of many American companies its size--a pub, a gym, a discounted cafeteria, laundry facilities and travel agents who book trips for employees.