BU354 Chapter Notes - Chapter 17: Employee Assistance Program, Bloomberg Businessweek, Gender Equality
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Workforce mobility the focus on managing the recruitment, relocation, and retention of employees who complete work-related tasks and activities outside of the core or primary head office or region of the company. These programs are enabled by technological advancements, globalization, tight labour markets, and customer demands and have a direct impact on company profits. Expatriate employees who are citizens of the country where the parent company is based who are sent to work in another country. Immigrant a person residing in canada who was born outside of canada (excluding temporary foreign workers, canadian citizens born outside of canada and those with student or work visas) A troubling issue is the need for tight security and terrorism awareness training for employees sent to countries with an increased risk of kidnapping of foreign executives. The first step is understanding the differences in underlying cultural values in different societies.
