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Training Strategies –
Expatriate Training

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Training
 Four strategies of training
 MNC’s may make use of expatriates for short – term or long – term international
job assignments
 The staffing orientation that is adopted in the subsidiary unit that influences the
training impetus
 Ethnocentric
 Polycentric
 Geocentric/Rigeocentric
 Control and coordination linkages that the parent unit whishes to establish with
subsidiary unit drives the training budget and the strategy
 Closely established
 Control linkages are weak
 Control linkages high
 Role and responsibilities of the position determine the extent and content of
training.

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Expatriate Training
 Ascertaining the cultural awareness and the fit for host
country’s culture.
 CCT – Planned intervention designed to increase the
knowledge and skills of expatriate to live and work effectively
and achieve general life satisfaction in an unfamiliar host
country.
 Effectiveness of CCT – Reflected by cognitive, affect and
behavioral

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 Increase chance of success in
global assignment
 Provides comprehensive global
perspective for managers
 Instills sense of confidence
 Foreign employees can be
managed better
 False sense of confidence
 Not remove culture bias
 Not be taken seriously
 Not make a visible difference
 Never fully prepare an assignee
to face real problems
Merits Demerits

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Objectives:
 Bridging the cultural gap
 Recognizing difference through orientation or induction
 Organization success is critical in achievement of global
 Retaining advantage over international competitors
 Single organization culture

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Stages
Phase1
Training
objectives
Phase2
Identify the
type of global
assignment
• CEO
• Structure re
producer
• Trouble shooter
• operative
Phase3
Determining
training
needs
• Organisational
analysis
• individual
analysis
• Assignment
analysis
Phase4
Establish
goals and
measures
• Short term
• Long term
Phase5
Develop and
deliver CCT
program
• Course content
• Identify methods
of training
• Sequence
sessiions
Phase6
Evaluating
the program
• Short term goals
• long