Overview

Firms send staff to work abroad for several reasons. For many years it was the practice to send out headquarters staff in order to ensure that subsidiaries were managed in the way that HQ wished, a very ethnocentric position to take. It may be that management expertise or technical skills are not available locally or the organization may wish to develop international expertise in their staff.

• "A Process Model of Expatriate Deployment <http://lisaconsulting.com/weblog/2007/aug/05/workingabroad5/>"_
• "Cross-cultural Adjustment Stages <http://lisaconsulting.com/weblog/2007/aug/05/workingabroad6/>"_
• "Expatriate Failure <http://lisaconsulting.com/weblog/2007/aug/05/workingabroad66/>"_
• "Expatriate Success <http://lisaconsulting.com/weblog/2007/aug/05/workingabroad3/>"_
• "Women as Expatriates <http://lisaconsulting.com/weblog/2007/aug/05/workingabroad2/>"_
• "HR Management factors and expatriate policies <http://lisaconsulting.com/weblog/2007/aug/05/workingabroad7/>"_
• "Managing Overseas Activities <http://lisaconsulting.com/weblog/2007/aug/05/workingabroad4/>"_
• "Repatriation <http://lisaconsulting.com/weblog/2007/aug/05/workingabroad8/>"_