Training and

Maintaining
Employees Abroad Orienting and Training

Performance Appraisal

Compensating

Union Relations

Terrorism & Safety

 Orienting and Training
Employees on International Assignment

Pre-departure training Ongoing Training

Basics of new country’s history, Rotating Assignments to form
politics business norms, informal networks
education system

Boost self awareness and cross Overseas educational

cultural understanding opportunities

Prepares individuals and their

Management development
families for daily life and
centers around the world
business situations abroad
 Performance Appraisal
International Managers

Appraisal done from Adapting Taking advice of

More weightage to
both Home and Host performance criteria former expatriate
on-site manager’s
manager produce to local job from same overseas
appraisal
best appraisal location
 Compensating
Managers Abroad

Maintaining Balance Sheet Incentives Establishing Global

standard of living Approach Pay System
Maintain their Formulating pay to • Foreign Service • Set Strategy
former home equalize the premium • Identify crucial
country standard of purchasing power • Hardship behavior
living across countries. allowances • Global
Addressing • Mobility Philosophy
expenses – income Premiums framework
tax, housing, goods • Identify Gaps
and services, other • Systematize pay
expenses. systems
• Adapt Pay
policies
Union Relations Abroad
Different Union-management relation
1 practices among countries and regions

Walmart successfully neutralized

2 unionization attempts in US, but
not in China

Collective bargaining in Western-Europe

3 tends to be industry wise, whereas in US
it occurs at company or plant level
 Terrorism & Safety

Pay significantly high salaries

IBM, Cognizant, Accenture pay high allowances
to Indians wh0 are ready to work in countries
having political unrest or plagued by terrorism

Taking Protective Measures

Comprehensive safety plans and evacuation
plans need to be put in place. Tech Mahindra has
developed a mobile application that sends
regular alerts through this app

Kidnapping and Ransom Insurance

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Employers buy K&R insurance where various
events can trigger payments under such policies.