Any cost-conscious organization sending employees abroad needs to be prudent and justify all the expenses of an expatriate assignment. Smart organizations know that a small percentage of the overall expat management cost protects their investment in global talent. International employee relocations can fail for various reasons: A company may have chosen the wrong team member for the […]
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Casting Call Are you in a long-distance relationship with someone from another country? Are you planning to leave everything behind in America to start your lives together overseas? The Producers that brought you are currently searching for men & women who are in a long distance relationship with someone overseas & planning to leave everything […]
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How well can you diagnose cultural differences in the workplace? Take the quiz: Andy Molinsky Andy is the author of Reach: A New Strategy to Help You Step Outside Your Comfort Zone and Global Dexterity: How to Adapt Your Behavior across Cultures without Losing Yourself in the Process, Professor of International Management and Organizational Behavior at […]
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“Why do Americans share so much personal information with people they barely know?” “Why are Germans so reserved towards people who are trying to get know them?” When interacting with representatives from cultures other than our own we are easily influenced by first-impression observations which sometimes manifest themselves in stereotypes. Some of the typical stereotypes […]
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I distinctly remember one of the first times I drove in the United States. I’d learned to drive in the UK not too long before, and I knew that I would need to constantly concentrate while across the pond to make sure I stayed on the right side of the road. I’d heard legends and […]
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Imagine a scenario similar to this: At work, you sit next to someone whom you went to college with and one cubicle over you find a co-worker who spent their youth traveling around the globe. The global nature of the world economy is a fact that no-one can ignore anymore. Gone are […]
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What it’s Like to Be an American Mom Raising Kids in Djibouti, Africa I have been a parent now for 15 years. But for 13 of those years, I have lived thousands of miles away from my hometown in the American Midwest, in what’s known as the Horn of Africa (Somalia and Djibouti). As a result, most of my actual […]
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