Enhancing opportunities for expatriate job satisfaction: HR strategies for foreign assignment success.(human resource): An article from: Human Resource Planning

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From the author: Increasing globalization continues to drive corporate expansion into new foreign markets, requiring organizations to staff foreign management positions using expatriate employees. Incidents of expatriate failure are high, however, and can cause substantial losses for the organization. Although many organizations pursue varying strategies to minimize expatriate failure, more organizations should capitalize on synergies between expatriate programs, the tenets of job satisfaction, and, indirectly, predictors of turnover. This article evaluates current expatriate research studies and builds upon that knowledge base by linking organizational support of expatriates to job satisfaction. Research has shown that many organizations have mastery of the tenets of job satisfaction with their domestic employees; thus, global organizations should extend similar practices to expatriate employees. Recommended strategies include organizational practices to enhance the acculturation and adjustment of an expatriate, thereby increasing his or her job satisfaction, ability to complete the assignment successfully, and reducing turnover potential.

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Title: Enhancing opportunities for expatriate job satisfaction: HR strategies for foreign assignment success.(human resource)
Author: Deirdre McCaughey
Publication:Human Resource Planning (Magazine/Journal)
Date: December 1, 2005
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 28 Issue: 4 Page: 21(9)

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