An expatriate is a manager from a company who is sent abroad for a mission.
The mission varies depending on the need of the multinationals in the host country, it can be the control of quality or establishing the MNE’s procedures in a subsidiary.
Multinationals need to form it managers to go overseas because the international environment is very difficult.
Thus, managers are evaluated on their mission to have a feedback from the experience and then analyze where they succeeded and where they failed and mainly why.
We will study the major factors associated with appraisal of expatriate management performance. To do that, we will see in a first part the variables which can influence performance and in a second time, the factors of performance management.

Performance management is a tool which give to the MNE the ability to evaluate it managers, it subsidiaries following their missions abroad.
The assessment is very important for the company, this allows seeing if the strategy used is the good one or if there is any modification to make.
Companies can install a subsidiary abroad just to have a presence in the market, not necessary to be profitable and it can have an impact for the subsidiary management.
The manager must be informed of this strategy to prepare himself/herself because it will be more difficult to manage a team, to improve their motivation.

MNE’s strategy is based on economic and political criteria, which can be instable from a country to another. For example, the collapse of communist rules in the end of the 1980s, the Gulf war with the increasing of oil prices , the tsunami in the Indian Ocean in 2004 or more recently the Arab Spring in 2011.
All of these events must be taken into account on the management performance because they have in impact on the way of management. After the tsunami, the local people are psychologically