Aligning Human Resources and Business Strategy, 2nd Edition

Chapter 10

Developing International Managers

The key to the great global success of the 21st century is the development and management of creative talent capable of operating across borders and cultures. IT can facilitate knowledge transfer around a worldwide business, but the critical advantage will be the human ability to manage diversity; to create the genuinely multicultural, as well as multinational organization.

(Kennedy, 1998)

As many as 25% of employees who come back from an overseas posting resign within a year, according to a survey by the Centre for International Briefing. After two years the figure rises to a staggering 40%. Some find that no new role has been defined for them and look in vain for appreciation of their new skills ...