Global Assignments: Successfully Expatriating and Repatriating International Managers (Jossey Bass Business & Management Series) - Hardcover

Black, Stewart; Gregersen, Hal B.; Mendenhall, Mark E.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1555424732 ISBN 13: 9781555424732

Publisher: Jossey-Bass, 1992

Synopsis

Helps executives, managers, and human resource professionals leverage each international assignment into a tool for competitive advantage. Looks beyond the simple logistics of setting up global programs to discuss such issues as how to balance family concerns with the demands of overseas assignments. Includes ground-breaking research on the repatriation of employees returning to Japan, the United States, and Finland.

Turn every international assignment to your competitive advantage. This book looks beyond the simple logistics of setting up global programs to explore such issues as how to balance family concerns with the demands of oversees assignments, and explores the repatriation of employees returning home.

About this title

About the Author

STEWART BLACK is assistant professor of business administration at the Amos Tuck School of Business Administration, Dartmouth College. HAL B. GREGERSEN Hal B. Gregersen is a visiting assistant professor of business administration at the Amos Tuck School of Business Administration, Dartmouth College. MARK E. MENDENHALL holds the J. Burton Frierson Chair of Excellence in Business Leadership at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga. All three authors have lived overseas and have consulted with a wide variety of multinational organizations on the subject.

From the Back Cover

Helps executives, managers, and human resource professionals leverage each international assignment into a tool for competitive advantage. Looks beyond the simple logistics of setting up global programs to discuss such issues as how to balance family concerns with the demands of overseas assignments. Includes ground-breaking research on the repatriation of employees returning to Japan, the United States, and Finland."A seminal book, highly recommAnded not only to international executives but to all cross-cultural consultants."--European Business Review

From the Inside Flap

Helps executives, managers, and human resource professionals leverage each international assignment into a tool for competitive advantage. Looks beyond the simple logistics of setting up global programs to discuss such issues as how to balance family concerns with the demands of overseas assignments. Includes ground-breaking research on the repatriation of employees returning to Japan, the United States, and Finland.Turn every international assignment to your competitive advantage. This book looks beyond the simple logistics of setting up global programs to explore such issues as how to balance family concerns with the demands of oversees assignments, and explores the repatriation of employees returning home.

Edition details

• Publisher: Jossey-Bass
• Publication date: 1992
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1555424732
• ISBN 13: 9781555424732
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 327