ABSTRACT
Throughout this chapter, the student will be exposed to:
The different approaches to staffing foreign operations
The reasons for using international assignments: position filling, sharing and transferring knowledge, developing employees, and controlling and coordination of international activities
The different categories of international personnel: parent country, host country, and third country nationals, impatriates
The different types of international assignment for parent country nationals: expatriates, short-term assignees, international commuters and frequent flyers, global managers, and high potentials.
The different steps of the strategic management of international assignments: strategic planning and job analysis, recruitment, selection, preparation to transfer, cross-cultural adjustment and organizational support, performance appraisal, compensation, repatriation, and retention.
