Even though we know that mentoring works and is a great way to develop future organisational leaders, many organisations are not using it fully for (all) their expatriates. Effective mentoring significantly improves the success and retention of expatriates and also…
Expats are the focus of much research in global mobility because they are often strategically important and costly. But what about the host country nationals (HCNs) they work with? In our recently published article, my co-authors Anthony Fee, Snejina Michailova…
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…
Guest blog post by Dr Reto Wegmann, Senior Advisor of Swiss Ibex LLC, Lecturer at the University of Lucerne1 Making friends with locals is much more difficult when expats do not live among the local population, but rather in expat…
‘The happy expat needs friends’, yes, but how does this work? What helps and what doesn’t? And what can expats do to help the process along? Read here some of the highlights of my research based on 72 interviews with…