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Managing cross-cultural transition : a handbook for corporations, employees, and their families / Steven Shepard.
- Title
- Managing cross-cultural transition : a handbook for corporations, employees, and their families / Steven Shepard.
- Author
- Shepard, Steven.
- Publication
- Bayside, NY : Aletheia Publications, c1998.
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Text | Use in library | HF5382.55 .S48 1998 | Off-site |
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- Description
- xiii, 239 p. : ill.; 22 cm.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [217]-219) and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Introduction -- Part 1: The Multinational Corporation -- Outbound -- Inbound -- Statistics of Success-or Failure -- Part 2: Employee Assessment and Selection -- Employee Selection -- Line Management versus HR -- Employee Factors -- Spouse Concerns -- Health -- Age and Maturity -- Other Pitfalls -- Part 3: Preparation and Expatriation -- Predeparture Orientation -- Preparation and Counseling -- The Mentor -- The Mentor's Responsibilities -- Most Important: Communication -- Formal Mentor Programs -- Letters of Understanding -- Domestic Housing -- Employees: Remember the Family -- Part 4: In-Country Transition -- Arrival -- Settling In -- Acceptance -- First Home Leave: Satisfaction and Conflict -- Two-Career Families -- Part 5: Reentry -- Preparation for Reentry -- The Repatriation Process -- Breaking Ground: The Domestic Workplace -- Professional Transition -- Part 6: The Special Case of Expatriate Children -- Five Phases of the Global Nomad -- Preparing Children for Reentry -- The Five Cs -- Part 7: Creating a Multinational Employee -- Management Strategy -- Issues, Concerns, and Special Cases -- Interorganizational Transfers -- Turnabout- Educating the Home Office -- Putting the Skills to Work -- Operational Skills -- Tactical Skills -- Strategic Skills -- Peer Counseling and Family Support -- Compensation Issues -- Intangible Components of Compensation -- Foreign Business Practices -- Fiscal Responsibilities of the Expatriate Employee -- Feedback -- Keys to Managing the Expatriate Employee -- Conclusion -- Bibliography.
- ISBN
- 0963926055
- LCCN
- ^^^97072339^//r98
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library