1. You have been offered a reasonably lucrative opportunity for an expatriate assignment for the next three years., and your boss will have a meeting with you next week. What would you discuss with your boss?
2. As an HR director for an oil company, you are responsible for selecting 15 expatriates to go to work in Iraq. However, you are personally concerned about their safety there. How do you proceed?
3. What are some of the problems inherent in evaluating an expatriate's(someone working outside of home country) job performance? What can be done to minimize these problems?
4. Describe some of the problems experienced by repatriates (people returning from abroad) and how training and development might alleviate them? What types of training/development would you offer?
Resources-at least 2 cited in discussion board post
International Business- Wild
Videos from reputable sources like TED
Online resources- globaledge.msu.edu
Publications including:
The Economist, Wall Street Journal, Harvard Business Review, scholarly publications, category trade journals.