Increasing Expatriate Success while Decreasing Corporate Costs.

McFarland, Jean Rowe

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ERIC Number: EJ549337

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Publication Date: 1997

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Increasing Expatriate Success while Decreasing Corporate Costs.

McFarland, Jean Rowe

Performance Improvement, v36 n7 p22-30 Aug 1997

Discusses employees on international assignments and describes a study that examined reasons for the failure rate of expatriates. Topics include business issues; employee issues, including psychological and professional; personal factors; organizational factors; cultural factors; and the need for cultural training prior to departure. (LRW)

Descriptors: Cross Cultural Training, Cultural Influences, Cultural Literacy, Employee Attitudes, Foreign Countries, Job Performance, Organizational Climate, Overseas Employment, Performance Factors, Work Attitudes

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