Pricewaterhouse Coopers

PricewaterhouseCoopers is a multinational professional services network. It is the world’s second largest professional services network, as measured by 2013 revenues, and is one of the Big Four auditors, along with Deloitte, Ernst & Young (EY) and KPMG. PwC is a network of firms in 157 countries with more than 184,000 people. It had total revenues of $32.1 billion in FY 2013, of which $14.8 billion was generated by its Assurance practice, $8.2 billion by its Tax practice and $9.2 billion by its Advisory practice. The firm was formed in 1998 by a merger between Coopers & Lybrand and Price Waterhouse. The trading name was shortened to PwC in September 2010 as part of a rebranding. As of 2012 PwC United States is the fifth-largest privately owned organization in the United States. The Requirements – Management Development for Azerbaijani Employees Price Waterhouse Coopers (Azerbaijan) requested a range of Management Development Interventions for their Azerbaijani Middle Management Accountants with the aims of training these staff in the designated areas, but with the sub agenda of bringing staff, used to working within a Soviet culture, into that of working for an American Company’s values. The challenge was to change the cultural mind set of the individuals taking part in the training as well as to work in part with a translator in order to impart the key messages. The Solution The solution was to deliver the training in conjunction with a skilled interpreter in line with the aims identified by the company and to challenge many of the values and behaviours of employees brought up in a Soviet system and who were required to function within a western organisation The training provided was: Presenting Information within a Western Corporate environment Conducting Appraisals the PWC Way Negotiation Skills within PWC

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