Managing Global Assignments

Question 1

• Approach global assignments as long-term investments.
• Develop future executives with essential global perspectives and experiences to formulate and implement competitive strategies.
• Increase the effectiveness of critical coordination and control functions between and among the home office and foreign operations.
• Effectively disseminate information, technology, and values throughout the worldwide organization.

Answer 1

Strategic-Systematic Approach

Question 2

• Approach global assignments as short-term expenses.
• Focus on a quick-fix approach to a short-term problem in a foreign operation.
• Randomly and haphazardly perform some functions of assignments and focus attention as problems arise.
• Fail to systematically integrate the worldwide organization in terms of values, technology, products, and brand.

Answer 2

Tactical-Reactive Approach

Question 3

An employee who is being reassigned to an international jurisdiction.

Answer 3

International Assignee (IA)

Question 4

Spend their entire careers in international assignments, moving from one locale to another

Answer 4

Globalists

Question 5

Hired locally in subsidiary countries (and are also known as HCs, host-country nationals)

Answer 5

Local Hires

Question 6

On assignment for less than a year but more than a few weeks, often without moving the family

Answer 6

Short-term Assignees

Question 7

Traditional expatriates on full relocation assignments lasting from one to three years

Answer 7

International Assignees

Question 8

Travel across a country border for work regularly

Answer 8

Commuters

Question 9

Ad hoc or contract workers hired for a single assignment

Answer 9

Just-in-time expatriates

Question 10

Reintegrating the employee back into the home country after an international assignment. It includes adjustment to the new job and readjustment to the home culture and conditions (including any potential reverse culture shock).

Answer 10

Repatriation

Question 11

Does not always involve repatriation. An assignee’s next assignment can be back in the home country, in a different global location, or in new location or new position in the current host country.

Answer 11

Redeployment