Expatriate Failure and Success in International Management

International
Management

Table of Contents
QUESTION 1..................................................................................................................................3
QUESTION 2..................................................................................................................................3
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................6

QUESTION 1
EXPATRIATE FAILURE AND EXPATRIATE SUCCESS
INTRODUCTION: Expatriate often known as expat is a person residing in a country other than
their own country. They are often referred as professionals, skilled workers, or artists working
outside their country either by their own choice or sent abroad by their employers, which could
be companies, universities, governmental or non-governmental associations. The term expatriate
is also referred to retirees who choose to live outside by their own choice outside their native
country.
DEFINITION: An individual staying or working in a country other than his own country. An
expatriate can also be an individual who has relinquished citizenship in their home country to
become citizen of another (Boussebaa, Morgan and Sturdy, 2012).
If someone become an expatriate things could become cheaper in a new country. The kind of
lifestyle also matters the most and could be a great reason to move abroad for many people.
Expatriate tax services these services includes all the aspects of assignments, which involves
global assignment policies, including tax equalization; human resource support. These are the
employees of organisations of one country who are assigned to work in other countries on
business projects. They help their countries to set up their operations in other countries.
EXPATRIATE FAIILURE: It can be defined as “premature return” however Hazing puts up
that this definition might be inappropriate to measure the expatriate failure as the one who stays
but fails to come up with the desired results are more damaging to the organisations and
according to lee, it also includes the individuals who failed to adapt in other countries or to learn
new things or to meet expected performance standards. Burning and McCaughey also stated that
it amounts to an individual premature return from the international assignment or under
performance while conducting the assignment. These definitions includes both under
performance during the international assignments including premature return. As the main
objective is to complete the international assignment successfully.
FAILURE RATES: The rates of expatriate failure were grown in past few years, for example
around 10 to 20% of expatriates from US returned prematurely while the rest 33% were with the
performance standards. In international assignments there were a survey of global trends by
GMAC, NFTC, and SHRM in 2004 shows that 7% of expatriates were returned prematurely.