...Syed Bashir Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate whether, in a culturally diverse society such as the UAE, organizations employing expatriates can improve expatriate retention by providing expatriate employees with support aimed at facilitating their cross‐cultural adjustment...

... The information on which this paper is based was obtained through semi‐structured interviews conducted with Australian expatriates who were working the UAE in 2009. Findings The findings suggest that cross‐cultural training is very important in that it helps minimise, although not eradicate, misunderstandings...

..., and with a population engulfed by expatriates, the issue of “localization” is a pressing economic and social issue. Design/methodology/approach This paper reviews the national human resource situation in this atypical context, and seeks to determine the factors that impact on “localization” in this small, yet...