Globalization has influenced the way of doing business immensely. People have to understand and learn how to overcome challenges of working across cultures. Whether we are receiving clients from abroad, visiting potential overseas suppliers, working in international virtual teams, presenting, negotiating or socializing we need to be able to do the following things to communicate effectively: research and analyze national and corporate cultures of the business people we deal with; we need to be flexible, adapting to a particular situation; be aware of possible conflicts arising from misunderstanding and learn how to manage them. Richard R. Gesteland describes four patterns of cross-cultural business behaviour: Deal focus versus Relationship focus cultures; Informal versus Formal cultures; Rigid-time versus Fluid-time cultures; Emotionally expressive versus Emotionally reserved cultures. In our work the patterns of behaviour of Indian and Ukrainian people are compared.