International Organizations and Expatriates: Implications for Supporting the Successful Cultural Adjustment

Abstract

Globalization is a phenomenon of 21st century, leading to the fact that many international organizations has accelerated the pace of overseas market expansion. Under such circumstances, expatriates come into a critical position, in which play the role of completing international assignments and developing foreign affiliates. However, cultural adjustment is the primary challenge that expatriates inevitably encounter. In order to enhance competitiveness in the fierce business environment, international organizations have to help their expatriates with cultural adjustment to the greatest extent possible. The paper provides useful implications for supporting successful adjustment from human resource management perspective, based on literature summary and case study, contributing to the innovation of cross-cultural research.