COMMENTS

  1. Managing International Assignments & Compensation

    A new international assignment landscape is challenging traditional compensation approaches. For many years, expatriate compensation has been focused on a dilemma: having assignees on expensive home-based expatriate package versus localization - which is about replacing expatriates with locals or at least transition expatriates from an expatriate package to a local salary.

  2. Managing International Assignments

    An international assignment agreement that outlines the specifics of the assignment and documents agreement by the employer and the expatriate is necessary. Topics typically covered include ...

  3. 5 Tips for Managing Successful Overseas Assignments

    5 Tips for Managing Successful Overseas Assignments. Stay in constant touch and have a plan for their return. by. Andy Molinsky. and. Melissa Hahn. March 16, 2016. HBR STAFF. Sending talented ...

  4. Expatriate Management (Best Practice Tips)

    Managing expatriates is a multi-stage process, where each stage can be crucial to the overall success of an overseas assignment for your business, as well as the individual assignee, on both a personal and professional basis. The following guide looks at best practice for employers when deploying individuals overseas, including some important practical tips for

  5. The Right Way to Manage Expats

    The Right Way to Manage Expats. Sending executives abroad is expensive, but most companies don't get much back for their money. Those that do follow three practices. by. J. Stewart Black. and ...

  6. How to Prepare Expatriates for Foreign Assignments

    Here are eight tips for preparing expatriates for foreign assignments in a successful mobility project. Pre-Move Training. Sourcing Immigration Support. Ensure Continued Communication. Provide Support On The Ground. Undertake Project Alignment Meetings. Invest in Knowledge Management. Provide Home and Host Sponsorship.

  7. Structuring Expatriate Assignments and the Value of Secondment

    The secondment structure offers advantages, such as allowing an expatriate to continue participating in a company's 401 (k), pension, and health benefit plans, as well as in the social security ...

  8. A diary study of expatriate adjustment: Collaborative mechanisms of

    Understanding the antecedents of expatriate adjustment is vital for the success of international assignments. Social support is one of the most critical predictors of cross-cultural adjustment. ... Liu CH, Lee HW (2008) A proposed model of expatriates in multinational corporations. Cross Cultural Management: An International Journal 15(2): 176 ...

  9. Structuring Expatriate Postings

    Multinationals inevitably post expatriates abroad. But in setting up expat postings, employers too often either ignore the question of how best to structure the expat assignment or else they ...

  10. Lessons from an international assignment

    Author. An international assignment has long been seen as providing executives with an opportunity for personal growth and professional development, while enabling companies to place executives in markets where specific capabilities are needed or to spread corporate values and best practices throughout the organization.

  11. Expatriate Selection: How to Choose International Employees

    At its best, expatriate selection is a collaborative effort. Participants include management, HR professionals, and host-country recipients, each of whom has a particular (if at times overlapping) role to play. Host country staff are primarily responsible for assessing technical skills.

  12. Expatriate Adjustment: A Review of Concepts, Drivers, and ...

    In line with this, expatriate assignments are viewed as elemental for the development of global leaders' competencies and the implementation of standardized corporate conducts and cultures ... conceptualize a model of expatriates' decisions to withdraw from their assignment. This indicates that the work-related factors of job satisfaction ...

  13. The expatriate entrepreneur: Demystification and conceptualization of

    The model paper contributes to extant knowledge by delineating an entity: its goal is "to detail, chart, describe, or depict an entity and its relationship to other entities" (MacInnis, 2011, p. 138). Model papers typically summarize arguments in the form of a figure that depicts the salient constructs and their relationships (Meredith, 1993).

  14. Expatriate assignment, adjustment and effectiveness: an empirical

    This study extends the international literature by empirically testing a model of expatriate adjustment that examines the relationships between organizational antecedents (i.e., reasons for assignment), a more comprehensive set of adjustment behaviors, self-reported performance, and subordinate-rated managerial effectiveness. Using data from 194 expatriate managers and 505 subordinates working ...

  15. Sustainable Expatriate Management: Rethinking International Assignments

    To transform international assignments at the company level, MNEs need strategic concepts, including tools, to impact the defined materiality topics discussed above. ... Ramsey, J. R., Flores, G. L., Maertz, C., & Ahmed, R. O. 2019. A risk management model for research on expatriates in hostile work environments. The International Journal of ...

  16. How to Structure Global Mobility Assignments, Expatriate Postings and

    So Carlos's assignment package is the wrong model here.") Expatriate postings traditionally came about when a multinational tapped an employee to go work abroad for one of three reasons: to support a foreign affiliate, as a broadening assignment, or to work overseas for the home country employer's own benefit.

  17. Worldwide Survey of International Assignment Policies and ...

    Accelerated digitalization and increased importance of environmental, social and governance (ESG) considerations are among this year's key megatrends impacting companies and HR teams worldwide. The latest reports from our Worldwide International Assignment Policies and Practices survey (WIAPP), conducted during February and March 2023, help ...

  18. (PDF) Employee Development and Expatriate Assignments

    Employee Development and Expatriate Assignments. August 2017. DOI: 10.1002/9781405164030.ch9. In book: The Blackwell Handbook of Cross-Cultural Management (pp.155-183) Authors: Mark E. Mendenhall.

  19. Be Careful When Drawing Up Expatriate Agreements

    Four Possible Scenarios. Dowling provided details on at least four ways expatriate assignments can be set up: Foreign office. The person is employed by, paid by and renders services for the home ...

  20. Expatriate Assignments

    5. A Job When You Return: This is one of the most difficult requests to make, and to get written assurances about, but nonetheless the largest risk you face in taking an overseas assignment. Once you're "out of sight," you tend to become "out of mind," and at times available positions become few and far between.

  21. When and why host country nationals give advice to expatriates: A

    We test our model with HCNs and expatriates in foreign MNEs in China, which provides a strong context for our study. ... Fifth, expatriate assignments differ in terms of the tasks and duties involved and expatriates differ across a variety of individual characteristics, all of which may influence the level of task interdependence with HCNs. ...

  22. Statutory End-of-Assignment Notifications For Expatriates In ...

    End-of-Assignment notifications vary based on factors like the visa category, nature of assignment, and residence status of expatriate employees. These include: Deletion from Expatriate Quota (EQ) records: This applies to exited non-ECOWAS expatriates on long-term assignments (Green card status). The company is required to apply to the NIS ...

  23. Global Mobility Manager

    We are enjoying the flexibility of a hybrid work model, in which employees spend part of their week connecting with co-workers in our state-of-the-art headquarters. ... Ensure that our inbound and expatriate population is handled correctly from a tax, payroll, benefits and communications perspective. ... Knowledge of the Equus Assignment Pro ...