ABSTRACT
Among the most challenging aspects of international human resource management is how
to prepare international assignees to succeed abroad and once they are abroad, how to
facilitate their development so that they may gain competencies as global managers. This
chapter provides a framework and concrete guidelines for designing and implementing an
effective training and development program for international assignees. These ideas are
considered in the context of the challenge facing a fictional human resources (HR) vice
president, Mel Stephens, who has to develop a training program for several employees
being sent to Japan.
