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 [...]

Can international assignments delay becoming a CEO

Can relocation hinder career development? A new study says that taking too many international assignments can delay the process toward becoming a CEO. Other hindrances are taking relocations too late in a career or switching companies.
By Jared Shelly
Taking an international assignment is key to employees successfully progressing through the ranks of an organization. They expand [...]

Do I Really Need International Experience to be a Player in HR?

If you are like most type A career climbers, you probably grabbed your passport, your traveling lawn gnome, and were headed out the door faster than you could say CHRO.  Fortunately for you, the Academy of Management has just saved you a bundle in moving boxes and packing tape by dispelling one of the greatest myths in [...]

Expatriate Spouses – Top tips for finding a job

Satu Kreula, an executive coach working with professionals and executives with international employment, shares some ideas about how expatriate spouses and partners coming into the UK can prepare themselves for job-hunting in today’s very competitive employment market.
In the current economic climate, what is the best way to find work? Here are five things that expatriates [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

HR strategies for success in international assignments

A mobile workforce is fundamental to implementing global strategies. Indeed, the question many directors are now asking themselves is how to respond to what the UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon is calling the second phase of globalisation – the ‘age of mobility’.
Ruth Holmes looks at some solutions.

Read this article in full in the Winter 2007/8 [...]