Economy Takes Global Employee Relocations On a Bumpy Ride

Report by Brookfield Global Relocation Services Finds Some Industries, Including Oil and Gas and Telecommunications, Have Increased International Assignments While Others Are Sharply Cutting Back WOODRIDGE, Ill.–(Business Wire)– The ongoing economic downturn has forced many companies to dramatically scale back the number of employees they are relocating for international assignments, but has left other industries [...]

Spouses, partners and international assignments

A large-scale survey of the views of spouses and partners of international assignees has recently been conducted by Permits Foundation. It finds that a lack of spouse and partner employment opportunities adversely affects international mobility, and that a few simple improvements, including providing work permits for spouses and partners, can create a ‘triple win’ for [...]

Integrating Remote Teams

Philippe Nitzer, of Farnham Castle International Briefing & Conference Centre, explores the issue of how to manage remote cross-cultural teams.
Within teams, managing clashes between personalities comes with the territory. However, when it comes to channelling the energy of a remote team made up of members from different cultural backgrounds, based in different locations around the [...]

Expats in the Middle East feeling the crunch

An online poll has revealed that almost one third of expatriates working in the Middle East are looking to leave the region as a result of the global recession.
The survey, conducted by recruitment website Bayt.com, polled the views of more than 22,000 expatriates working in the Middle East. The results show that 28% are planning [...]

International Management Development

Management development presents a major challenge to employers, in an international environment, with leaders and managers alike needing to embrace cultural diversity. Sue Shortland explains.

A synergistic view drawing upon human capital of various cultures and behaviours is now known to be more successful in leading people across the world. Recognising this, the CIPD guide to [...]

The rise and rise of female expatriates

Women’s participation in international mobility is on the up. Today, just under 17% of expatriates are female. Sue Shortland charts their progress in international assignments, and outlines what companies might do to increase gender diversity yet further.
Back in the early 1980s, very little was written about female expatriates – because there were simply too few [...]