This study aims to look at the role of foreign managers in motivating local employees. Analyze the constraints faced by foreign managers and exposing the efforts of foreign managers, to keep motivating local employees even though there are differences in background. The results of this research showed, that interpersonal role, the role of informational and decisional roles has been executed properly by the foreign managers. Research found that the foreign managers contribute to fulfill of a social needs, a respect needs and self-actualization needs. Constraints faced by foreign managers in the fulfillment of social needs, respect needs and self-actualization need is a communication. Communication barrier can be overcome by managers. A Foreign manager does not impose his culture and his language. PT. XYZ have values that one of them is to respect the local culture in country that PT. XYZ founded. There is many efforts of foreign managers to understand the local culture and local language. Including language classes, following the Indonesian news on TV till watching a sinetron.
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