HRM200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Opportunity International, Balance Sheet, Leadership Development
13 Jun 2015
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Expatriate - employee who are citizens of the country where the parent company is based, who are sent to work in another. Pressing challenges re: global staffing & relocation: candidate identification, assessment, selection, global assignment cost projections, specific assignment letters (contacts9, compensation, benefits, and tax programs, relocation assistance, family support. Why expats assignment fail: expat assignment fail: early return of an expat from a global assignment, family issues are the number one cause of the expat assignment fail. Values - a broad tendency to prefer certain states of affairs over others. Influence our perception of the world around us. Imply that some behaviors or outcomes are preferred over others. Hofstede"s framework for assessing culture - five value dimensions: Culture is communication and communication is culture (1959) Slow context cultures rely on direct communication and works to convey meaning ie. canada & usa. High context cultures: rely on contextual information and indirection communication to convey meaning ie. japan & china.
