Expatriate

Being in foreign assignment, the expatriate may be lost physically and mentally such as, away from home town and family environment, leaving from familiar work place to unseen work place, facing so many challenges in stranger nation and trying to hit company’s goal, stressful and full of…

A study by Eschbach, Parker, and Stoeberl (2001) examined the effect of cross-cultural training of expatriates versus expatriates who received no training in the United States. Beyond this, they further investigated different training methods and the timing of such training to determine the best approach to prepare expatriates for adjusting to their new assignments. The goal of this study was to determine if cross-cultural training; helps participants realize appropriate behavior, lowers stress…

is enough. On the contrary, China would be a real challenge for the expatriate thus Mendenhall and Black recommend a stronger training, adapted to each expatriate and the problematic they will have to face abroad. Indeed, we are able to refute this…

management of expatriates from New Zealand in China is not rigorously enough as an academic paper. It has some flaws in its language organization, survey sample selection and survey question setting. In Seak & Enderwick’ s journal, it reports the study of the problems which encountered by 40 New Zealand expatriate managers in China. First, due to the culture background in China is contrary to New Zealand, the parent companies have a serious of specific and similar standard for expatriate members…

Challenge of expatriation acculturation Failure situations during international assignments happen in nearly every multinational firm. In fact, the acculturation process is based on several variables that the expatriate has to deal with, and during the same period of time (H.Hays, 1974): the local environment representing all the factors linked to the specific foreign environment, the task, representing all the factors linked to the specific job that have to be performed, and the individual,…

Sun Also Rises, Ernest Hemingway depicts the travels of a group of expatriate Americans as they leave Paris and plunge into a festival at Pamplona, Spain. Jake Barnes, the novel’s protagonist, brings his group of friends to witness his favorite yearly tradition: bullfighting. He never anticipates, however, that his friends’ values, or lack thereof, are doomed to create chaos at the festival, and so Jake loses both his expatriate and Spanish friends. From the start, Hemingway portrays Paris and…

We wish to employ no more than four expatriates. We will be on the lookout for employees who are highly skilled and experts in their fields. We will be posting ads on our website letting employees know of what expatriate positions we will be needing. We will also be going to each department to observe employees and see which ones could be potential candidates. As far as employing…

(Hurn, 1999). Repatriation is considered important because the person has to re-adapt himself to the home country and the pattern of work and at the same time begin interaction with their friends and fellow workers. Normally all the managers and expatriates assume that adjusting in their home country and culture will be really smooth but it has been seen that for most of them it’s the other way round that is adapting themselves to the host country, that is living abroad is easier. According to…

Multinational Corporation may be defined as enterprise that operate and has its assets and other facilities in more than one country than their home countries. However in most cases, such companies have offices or industries in different nations and normally have a centralized main office where all the global management is coordinated. The major distinguishing factor of the large multinationals corporations is that their budgets exceed those of many small countries. The major multinational…

As there are advantages to using expatriates, as well as some weaknesses. The first weakness is not familiar with the culture and language of the target market. Expatriates sent overseas are often not prepared for the experience. They are less introduced in ways that countries receiving them and sometimes cannot meet the challenges created by the cultural gap. Inability to adapt to the local culture sometimes leads to failure of expatriate managers or cultural conflict or bad image "foreign"…