SUMMARY:
In first place an expatriate assignment is about a person who works in a company and is asked to go fill a task in another country. This assignments are for a particular period of time, several basis are taken into account in the moment of choosing the right person. For example, men are considered more appropiate in this cases because women are always more related to a family and children, and this means more complications. Even tough families have moved to a different country as a result of an expatriate assignment is better for a company to find an adequate person but with less responsabilities because this ones are reflected to them in terms of higher costs. Companies should always consider costs because a mistake could represent loosing money, and now thanks to technology, traveling is not necessary in some cases. Net working is possible, and is so much easier because costs are reduced significantly and many objectives can be fullfilled.
In contrast to this an overseas experience doesnt have to do with work matters, its a personal decision that is taken by the person that will travel. The trip will be made to travel and develop freely in an international environment. This will be specially made as a personal growth experience, where the person can mix with other cultures and be in a constant learning process. The most frequent overseas experience is seen in students, young people who are preparing for a competitive and unlimited world that has no frontiers. This way students can apply for a work that helps them maintain their lifestyle, like traveling or just studying the home country language. An overseas experience can be so fulfilling that you dont only learn about a culture or a new language but you also learn life experiences, which can be very valuable; almost priceless.
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QUESTIONS:
1) Explain one of the causes for expatriate assignment failure and provide 3 recommendations to adress it:
One of the most important issues in an expatriate assignment is the family subject. Family can be a very critical point when a person, specially when is the head of the family is leaving to a different country. Altough the task is defined, that is not for good, its hard to leave behind such a huge responsability. In other cases where the person has the choice to leave with his family, other problems seem to arouse. For example all situations vary depending if there are children or not, because if there are no children things can be a little more practical. But in the case where child exist, comes a big numbre of necessities. Starting by, a school, an appropiate house (size), etc. As you can see costs in each implementation can vary and not in low terms. Other cases where there could exist issues are in the decision of the person as an individual, this means if the person has ever considered leaving the country or if he or she wishes to do it. This is not an easy task to perform because its not easy for everyone to leave their home and country even for a determined period of time.
It is very important for companies to make sure that any expatriate experience results in a positive way, for this they need to make sure to eliminate as much negative aspects as possible. Here are listed some recommendations:
1) give the family the opportunity of traveling with their family or better try searching a person who fullfills the requirements who has less responsabilities.
2) settle the person as a hole, by helping them to solve incomformities and negotiate determined aspects.
3) investigating first, in order to discover which are the persons interested for the experience and who adjust to the needed characteristics. Personalities are very important to take into consideration depending on the profile the organization is looking for.
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