Expatriate success may depend on a “learning orientation”: Considerations for selection and training
✍ Scribed by Gayle Porter; Judith W. Tansky
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1999
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 165 KB
- Volume
- 38
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0090-4848
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✦ Synopsis
To support globalization, managers increasingly are sent to live and work in other countries. An unsuccessful expatriate assignment is costly for the organization and damaging to the individual's career, yet few companies have adequate processes for selecting and training expatriate managers. The concept of "learning orientation" is proposed as a valuable dimension for assessment and training. Employees with weaker learning orientation tend to withdraw from situations that could result in low judgment of performance; those with stronger learning orientation adapt and continue. The described approach can benefit employees and their families and can increase the organization's chance for international success.