...Christine Vallaster In the context of increasing levels of international activities and globalisation of market competition, international human resource management has attracted increasing attention. Women are under‐represented within the ranks of expatriate managers despite steady increases...

... as well as organization culture,discipline and work ethics"". This should be used to encourage local talent."The use of human capital - both expatriate and local - is a powerful factor that makes the business machine run effectively"", says the report. Amrop found that for international businesses...

... Diane van Ruitenbeek, who has been conducting the two-year study at the Manchester School of Management, UMIST, says: "It is astounding that such a high per centage of organisations are not providing their expatriate managers with adequate preparation or a realistic view of the assignment...

...Joe Jordan; Sue Cartwright Selecting expatriate managers for an international assignment has been hindered not just by a lack of empirical studies testing construct predictors, but more importantly, by a lack of clearly defined traits and competencies that can, in the first place, be introduced...

...Jan Selmer Presents an investigation of how host country national subordinates perceive the leadership behaviour of their expatriate bosses in foreign assignments. From a sample of 240 middle managers in Hong Kong with experience of both local Chinese bosses and expatriate bosses from a broad...

...Abbas J. Ali; Ahmed A. Azim; Krish S. Krishnan Investigates managerial value systems and decision styles among expatriate and indigenous managers in the UAE. Provides support for the proposition that differences among expatriate and host country nationals are manifested in their value systems...