Choices in Appointing International Managers

Written by Brenda Townsend Hall


Globalization is requiring companies to make important choices about how to deploy international managers. The costs of makingrepparttar wrong choice are heavy both economically and inrepparttar 149695 emotional and physical toll it can take on employees andrepparttar 149696 impact it can have onrepparttar 149697 overseas branch.

Traditionally companies have required managers to accept foreign postings of, perhaps, several years’ duration. Such postings mean upheaval forrepparttar 149698 manager’s entire family—schools, dual career issues, isolation—and these problems of adapting to different cultures are a common cause ofrepparttar 149699 failure of such postings. The burden onrepparttar 149700 manager is heavy withrepparttar 149701 double challenge of dealing with unfamiliar work patterns and anxiety aboutrepparttar 149702 family’s ability to settle away from home.

A compromise is for assignments to be shorter, no more than one year. Such postings permit greater choice forrepparttar 149703 employee. The family may wish to come along but no long-term adaptation is required. Orrepparttar 149704 family may stay behind and be content to visit, knowing thatrepparttar 149705 absence is not too long. This is clearly less disruptive forrepparttar 149706 employee but meansrepparttar 149707 company has an additional burden of making new postings every year.

More recently, we have seenrepparttar 149708 emergence ofrepparttar 149709 international commuter, who ostensibly lives at home, but commutes every week or so torepparttar 149710 job abroad. This is less disruptive for families but is likely to lead to travel fatigue, even burnout forrepparttar 149711 employee.

A further option is for a key employee to make frequent trips to a foreign branch without actually relocating and doing so only when physical presence is a necessity—this choice is made easier by technologies that allow video meetings, telephone conferences, use of intranets and other means of real-time remote contact.

A recent study by Cranfield Centre for Research intorepparttar 149712 Management of Expatriation (CREME) found that organizations are increasing their use of all four types of handling international assignments. However, many questions remain about how companies can findrepparttar 149713 best solutions for staffing overseas branches.

Although more flexible working patterns have been sought because employees clearly have difficulty in dealing with long-term overseas postings,repparttar 149714 newer patterns are not themselves necessarily any easier to handle or more successful. The short-term assignment affects continuity of staffing and, in many cultures, frequent changes of manager are themselves a source of difficulty. The international commuter may cause local resentment by being seen as somebody imposed from outside who does not really wish to integrate withrepparttar 149715 local operation. Similarly,repparttar 149716 frequent flyer will have less influence locally and is likely to find performance impaired both at home and abroad simply fromrepparttar 149717 strain of travel.

Ten Ways To Effectively Increase Your Site’s Prominence On The Web

Written by Bob Bastian


It’s a strange world, this place we callrepparttar internet. Many things here are stark opposites of their real life counterparts. Take for examplerepparttar 149694 following. Whereas blind dating is a most dubious manner of meeting people in real life, it isrepparttar 149695 norm in cyberspace. Whereas multi-level marketing carries with it a stigma of disaster inrepparttar 149696 actual world, it is a venture very much sought onrepparttar 149697 web. And whereas traffic tends to irritate us in our daily existence, online denizens would kill to increaserepparttar 149698 same for their websites.

Traffic, orrepparttar 149699 volume of users who visit your site, is what ultimately dictatesrepparttar 149700 success or failure of your enterprise. You may haverepparttar 149701 best looking site onrepparttar 149702 planet, offeringrepparttar 149703 most beneficial package for would-be customers, but if no one gets to visit it, all would have been for naught.

Thus, generating traffic for your online business should be of utmost importance. Here are some proven ways in increasingrepparttar 149704 quantity of users who would visit your site.

1. Use Overture. Overture is a Yahoo subsidiary that offers a very useful keyword suggestion tool that could help you come up withrepparttar 149705 right keywords. Usingrepparttar 149706 right keywords would rake in more visitors for your site. Simply punch inrepparttar 149707 words that are related to your products or services, and see how many searches were made for those particular entries. The more searches there are,repparttar 149708 more you should consider using those keywords in your site.

2. Submit your site torepparttar 149709 many search engines onrepparttar 149710 web. People who are looking for particular information use search engines to determine their destination. You would want to have your website shown once a search is made.

3. Knowrepparttar 149711 value of keywords. Search engine spiders are sent to fetchrepparttar 149712 keywords embedded in your site, so it would serve you well if your pages are populated withrepparttar 149713 right keywords you’ve acquired from Overture.

4. Provide quality content. Populating your site with keywords would be useless if done carelessly. Your visitors would be looking for information, and it would be best to give them that. Otherwise, they’ll just leave as quickly as they came. Remember, you want quality visitors, those who haverepparttar 149714 highest possibility of purchasing what you have to offer. You have to provide good, informative content for them so that they’ll stay. Try to publish articles or special reports on your site, where your keywords are strategically positioned inrepparttar 149715 body of your content at a density level of at least 2% (2 mentions ofrepparttar 149716 keywords per 100 words ofrepparttar 149717 body).

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