Multinational enterprises continue to rely heavily upon expatriates as
part of their global workforce. These expatriates, whose exact
employment contract may take different forms, are assigned to help
them develop global skills as well as to foster knowledge transfer.
But managing this expatriate workforce is extremely complex, requiring
a questioning of assumptions and sensitivity to new social and
cultural dynamics. This book sets out to examine the problem of
expatriate management through an I/O Psychology lens. Each chapter
draws upon the expertise of scholars from around the world to provide
insights into the latest research findings and remaining needs,
pertaining to a wide variety of issues. The contributors of this book
review the current state of the research of the issue at hand and then
make recommendations for where the new frontiers of the research
should be in the coming decades. This volume covers four sets of
issues pertaining to expatriate management and global mobility in
depth. First, the different decision points organizations must make
about assigning someone to an overseas location for some period of
time; second the different categories of employees in the
multinational corporation and their unique characteristics and
challenges; third, the various issues and implications of managing a
globally mobile workforce; and fourth, the unique contexts of global
mobility. Overarching future research themes are identified that lay
out the research agenda for the coming decades. By bringing together
key research, this book aims to help I/O psychologists understand,
explore, and identify new ways of contributing to the understanding of
the issues involved in managing an expatriate workforce. Incorporating
state-of-the art I/O psychology research in this unique context bears
the promise of yielding important new paradigms and practices. Chapter
5 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF
at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons
Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.
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9781000644784
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2022
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Taylor & Francis
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Engelsk
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Digital bok
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