BUS 432 Chapter Notes - Chapter 9: Performance Management, Opportunity Cost, Business Travel
11 May 2016
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Whether or not an overseas work experience has a positive effect on an employee"s career, benefits his or her family, and also achieves the desired organizational outcomes depends on a wide variety of factors. These include the characteristics of the overseas work, organizational differences, and also factors associated with the employee and his or her family: global careers (page 185) Traditionally a global career involved on or several long term expatriate assignments, each of which might last several years and included relocation of the expatriate"s family. There was a fairly standard expatriate support package in terms of relocation assistance and compensation. Organizations are introducing more mobility across organizational units, including mobility from house locations to the head office (called inpatriates) There are signs suggesting what is understood as long-term may be changing, with a clear tendency toward shortening assignment length. Other changes include a reduction in expatriate benefits along with a change in the demographic profile of expatriates.
