Royal Holloway, University of London School of Management THE MANAGEMENT OF EXPATRIATES WITHIN EUROPEAN AND MIDDLE EASTERN AIRLINES By: September 2010 Supervisor: Dr. Yu Zheng This dissertation is submitted as part of the requirement for the award of the Master’s degree MSc in International Human Resource Management THE MANAGEMENT OF EXPATRIATES WITHIN EUROPEAN AND MIDDLE EASTERN AIRLINES Acknowledgements In the name of God, most gracious, most merciful
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Chapter 13 Managing Human Resources in an International Business Learning Outcomes Chapter Outline The Internationalization of Business How Intercountry Differences Affect HRM Improving International Assignments Through Selection Training and Maintaining International Employees International Labour Relations Safety Abroad Repatriation: Problems and Solutions After studying this chapter, you should be able to: Explain how to improve international assignments through employee selection
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Case 4 Jaguar or Bluebird? Mark Chan’s Decision to Stay Overseas or Return Home after His Expatriate Assignment (A) Case 5 From Jaguar to Bluebird – Mark Chan Returns Home after His Expatriate Assignment (B) Teaching Note This teaching note was prepared by Günter K. Stahl, Assistant Professor of Asian Business and Comparative Management at INSEAD and Chei Hwee Chua, Doctoral Student at the Moore School of Business, University of South Carolina. It is intended to aid instructors in the
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Introduction With globalization maturing rapidly in the world today, it is not surprising that organizations are deeply affected by erratic changes in their environment. In their run to achieve organizational effectiveness, the constant need to monitor and adjust to the environment is critical. Jobs and employees are essential buffers for uncertainties in organizations to their environment. But for it to be effective, a good fit between both employee and the job is necessary so as to have a competent
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Training and Preparing Expatriates MGT 555 Melvinne Kitillya Executive Summary Globalization has created opportunities for employers to find the skilled professionals they desire, whether they are in their own national market or elsewhere. These professionals that are being recruited from other nations are called expatriates, and they are chosen to live in another country either temporarily or permanently. There has been an increase of expatriates starting at the end of the 20th century
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This was a great opportunity and with the expatriate benefits package Mark’s wife Linda would not have to work and could stay at home with their two children who were still very young. She could always go back to work as a private banker when they returned to Singapore. This assignment would be a big stepping stone for Mark’s career when he returned. Mark had very little trouble settling into his new position, his past experience as an expatriate had equipped him well. He and his family quickly
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environment. As a result, Multinational companies increasingly use expatriates on short-term and long-term international job assignments for a variety of purposes, such as to acquire and transfer knowledge, to manage a foreign subsidiary, to fill a staffing need, to maintain communication, coordination, and control between subsidiaries and corporate headquarters, and to develop global leadership competence. Given this, successful expatriate assignments are indispensable to Multinational companies for
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GLOBAL HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT Topic 1: Career management issues of female business expatriates. In an ever-expanding and quickly changing global market, for businesses to be competitive it is extremely important that they be positioned worldwide in order to step up, make contacts and find human talent. In response to that, the number of expatriates sent on global assignments is increasing steadily, and therefore finding the right people with adequate skills for global assignments is becoming
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INTERNATIONAL HRM The emphasis throughout this book has been on HRM as it is practice in organizations in the United States. But many of these firms also engage in international trade. A large percentage carry on their international business with only limited facilities and representation in foreign countries. Others, particularly Fortune 500 corporations, have extensive facilities, and personnel in various countries of the world. Managing these resources effectively, and integrating
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“Explorer IV” rig is one of them. A small jack-up is set up to house a crew of 150 men, of whom 30 are American expatriates and 120 are local works. However, there are a lot of disparities of their living conditions including space, food and medical care. For example, the quarters for the local workers are about the same size as the quarters for American expatriates. Also, expatriates will be taken to Luanda for medical surgery if seriously injured, but Angolans can only be treated on the rig by
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