GROWTH IN EXPATRIATE EFFICIENCY: OVERCOMING DIFFICULTIES

• Authors: Szwiec Pawel

Title variants

PL

Wzrost efektywności expatów – przezwyciężanie trudności

• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

EN

In our globalizing world, the matter of international worker management is becoming more and more important. An international worker is a person who is sent to work in an organization that is located abroad, where that person spends at least one year. Such people come up against many problems connected with cultural differences in the new workplace. Management practice mainly uses selection oriented at attracting people with qualities facilitating cultural adaptation and cross-cultural training in order to limit these problems. The article discusses application of these two practices. Specifically, problems relating to individual traits useful in efficient work by international workers, cultural adaptation, and various kinds of cross-cultural training and its methods are described.

Keywords

EN

CULTURAL ADAPTATION; CULTURAL DIFFERENCES; EXPATRIATE; INTERNATIONAL WORKER'S MANAGEMENT

Discipline

• ECONOMICS: ECONOMICS

• Publisher: Institute of Labor and Social Studies, Warsaw
• Journal: Zarządzanie Zasobami Ludzkimi
• Year: 2009
• Issue: 5(70)
• Pages: 27-38
• Document type: ARTICLE

Dates

published

2009-10-15

Contributors

author

Szwiec Pawel

• Pawel Szwiec, Uiwersytet Opolski, Wydzial Ekonomiczny, Katedra Organizacji i Zarzadzania, ul. Ozimska 46a, 45-058 Opole, Poland

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

09PLAAAA068222