ABSTRACT
This chapter examines how employers can better manage the risks for expatriates working in danger zones. It highlights the need for a better understanding of the risks that expatriates face while working abroad. However, past research has tended to focus primarily on the psychological adjustment of expatriates and their families, with very little attention towards expatriate risk management. The dominant theme in prior research about expatriates has focused on the predictors and outcomes of expatriate adjustment to work in foreign countries. Expatriate risk management research has identified several risks that expatriates face, as well as several methods for managing risk in countries with elevated levels of risk. The risks to expatriates can include terrorism, kidnapping, crime. The risk management practices for nurses should be tailored to match the severity and frequency of the risks that they face. Risk management for expatriate civil engineers will be very different from positions that inherently engender contacts with locals such as foreign correspondents.
