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Unit 5: Recruitment and Selection for International Assignments

Unit 5: Recruitment and Selection for International Notes

Assignments

CONTENTS
Objectives
Introduction
5.1 Recruitment Process
5.1.1 MNCs International Staffing Approaches

5.1.2 International Assignments
5.1.3 Role of Expatriates
5.2 Issues in Staff Selection
5.2.1 Selection Process
5.3 Selection Criteria
5.4 Factors Moderating Performance

5.4.1 The Factors
5.4.2 Expatriate Failure
5.4.3 Success in International Assignment
5.5 Dual-career Couples
5.5.1 Female Expatriates

5.6 Summary
5.7 Keywords
5.8 Review Questions
5.9 Further Readings

Objectives

After studying this unit, you will be able to:

 Explain the process of recruitment and selection of staff for international assignment
 Discuss on the issues in staff selection
 Describe the factors moderating performance

 Identify the reasons behind success and failure of expatriates
 State the criteria of selection of expatriates

Introduction

Human Resource Management is crucial to organisational competitiveness and productivity
due to the growing diversity of the world’s workforce and its increasing importance. The need
to manage this diversity better has become a major challenge to the international manager. If
large corporations intend to retain their domestic operations and still be competitive with

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