Companies increasingly depend on their employees to invest their time and enthusiasm. With my colleagues Mette Strange Noesgaard and Snejina Michailova, we just published an article about the work engagement of assigned expats (AEs). This blog post summarizes our main…
Many organisations hire international talent to meet the needs of their business. These international employees have to work well together with the locals who already work there. I am starting a new study in both Denmark and New Zealand in…
Expats find Denmark one of the most difficult countries to make local friends, as is shown in the annual survey of InterNations, the global network for expats. But why do expats find particularly Denmark difficult for making local friends? I…
Mentoring is a key HR practice to increase knowledge transfer and can guide the individual professional development of expats and host country nationals (HCNs), and, in doing so, contribute to MNC knowledge management and organization development. With my colleagues Vlad…
When expats1 move abroad, they leave behind a large part of their social network. They must create new social connections to make sure they get the support they need to deal with the cross-cultural transition. In this article in International…