Expatriation in International Management

International Management

Table of contents
MAIN BODY.............................................................................................................................3
Expatriation................................................................................................................................3
Causes of expatriate failure........................................................................................................4
Challenges of doing business in Delhi, India.............................................................................5
Why Expatriation is still so widely used in a globalised economy............................................5
Implications and HR Director’s planning for staffing the new project......................................7
CONCLUSION..........................................................................................................................9

INTRODUCTION
In this report the expatriation is discussed along with the advantages and the
disadvantages of using the expat employees by the company are discussed. The causes are
discussed that are leading towards the expatriate failure for the international business. The
reason is discussed why the expatriation is still so widely used in the globalised economy
when currently the cases of expatriate failure are on hike. The staffing approaches are
discussed in the report and the planning of the staff for the new project in abroad. Different
approaches like the ethnocentric, polycentric, regiocentric and geocentric approaches are used
for staffing purpose by the company.
MAIN BODY
Expatriation
The term expatriation is used by the multinational companies. The person is called
expatriate or expat, who is a temporary resident of a country that is not their native country.
The companies send the employees who have skills and talented to the new countries. The
expatriate earn more than they earn in the native country. The factors for the selection of the
expatriate from the company are:
 Suitability of cross culture (Zheng and Smith, 2019).
 Language skills.
 Requirements of the company.
 Requirement of the MNE.
 Technical ability.
 Requirement of family.
Advantages of using the expatriate employees by the company are:
 They can be used to fulfil the strategic need of the company.
 They are capable of implementing the parent organisation in the management style of
the business cross the seas.
 They are able to coordinate as well as control along with the subsidiary operations of
the business.