Expatriate management has evolved through the practices of developed economy multinational enterprises (DMNEs), with the aim of improving expatriate adaptability, cross-cultural adjustment, and performance. However, most of these studies focus on expatriates from developed countries and try to...

This paper examines the structure of the labour market and unemployment in Sudan. One advantage of our analysis in this paper is that we explain several stylized facts on labour market using new secondary data on population, employment and unemployment based on Sudan Central Bureau of Statistics...

This paper updates previous Employee Benefit Research Institute (EBRI) publications that have examined employee tenure data of American workers. The latest data on employee tenure from the January 2008 Supplement to the U.S. Census Bureau’s Current Population Survey (CPS) are examined and...

This paper attempts to spotlight human resource management as a fundamental part of the role of any supervisor. In this paper, the human resource manager refers to the supervisor of three or more reports in a business unit not minding the existence of the human resource department in the...

Learning ObjectivesThe aim of this chapter is to:• Introduce the concept of corporate reputation.• Highlight the importance of reputation for organizations as well as for cities and countries.• Underscore the connection between reputation and international human resource management...

We compare how far companies based in Africa, India and the "global North" operating in Mauritius adopt high-trust flexible working practices and how these are linked to different clusters of wider labour management practice. Using comprehensive firmlevel data collected in late 2011, we find...

Expatriates are often high potential employees or experts in their field sent on high profile assignments requiring successful adaptation to another culture in order to perform their new job and fulfill the succession plan of the organization (Oddou, 2002). The development of culturally...