The Ingredients for Corporate Success?

Abstract

The search for excitement, adventure, cross-cultural learning and the avoidance of problems at home are amongst key drivers to seek an international assignment (Hippler, 2009; Doherty et al., 2011). Global careers and talent management are amongst the crucial ingredients for corporate success (Scullion and Collings, 2011) and understanding individual drivers and designing matching and motivating Global Mobility (GM) approaches is at the heart of high performance GM work (Dickmann et al., 2008). The RES Forum surveyed 61 large multinational corporations in its recent survey Organisation Development (Talent, Resourcing, Development) and here. The results of this recent survey set out the talent landscape within global firms with respect to the availability, management, career planning, performance and other outcomes of expatriation programmes.