Table of Contents
Global Assignments:1
Pre-departure Training Program1
Introduction3
The Training Program4
Session A: selection and expectations5
Part A: Country Briefing5
Part B Candidate Assessment Program6
Session B: Preparing expatriates and their families10
Part A (1 hour): Surviving culture shock10
Part B (1 hour): Practical problems12
Conclusions and Wrap-up13
Session C: Relocation and repatriation13
Part A (30 mins) Prepare the employee and family for relocation13
Part B (1 hour) Repatriation programme15
Part C (30 minutes): Three Case Studies in Point17
Appendices20
Session B Appendices20
1.Case study for Section A20
2.Role playing game for Section A21
3.Case study for Section B23
4.Simulation game for Section B24
Session C Appendix - PowerPoint Presentation26
Introduction
Global assignment of managers has been a traditional method of operating far flung commercial empires since the days of Robert Clive and the British East India Company. The importance of transferring knowledge, upskilling remote or local managers and instilling best practice throughout a multinational organization has long been recognized as a source of competitive advantage for those firms able to expand successfully.
The failure of rate of global assignments, and indeed international expansion, has throughout history been nothing less than fantastic. The vast majority of firms have been unable to master operations across multiple cultures, political systems or levels of economic development. The need to simply find out what is going on has, in the past, been the major motivator for global assignment. The advent of modern communication and travel technology has arguably reduced the need for "inspection" style assignments; however this role has been upgraded to the "mentoring" vocation of international managers whose primary purpose is to transfer knowledge. The plethora of technological marvels that enable cooperative endeavor expanding around the globe do little to change the fact that knowledge is "person...
Pre-departure training.
Awesome resource for me to prepare for my training for our company expatriate assignement.
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