Describes a comprehensive 14‐week predeparture training programme and an on‐location orientation session that companies may find useful when they transfer personnel to foreign assignments. Increasing numbers of Western professionals go to foreign countries on assignment. Their success or...

To minimize adverse consequences associated with expatriation, multinational companies need to identify the factors which facilitate (or impede) expatriate managers adjustment to a new environment. In this study, on the basis of their adjustment to four diverse aspects of life and work in...

Introduction As Gabriel said, “There can be little doubt that the inexorably widening gulf between the standards of living of the rich nations and the abject misery of the poor nations represents … the most portentous challenge of our time”. To date several explanations have been proposed...