October Edition of Mobility Magazine Online

Hi Everyone, The October edition of the Worldwide ERC® Mobility Magazine is now online and features the following:

Architecture of Strategic Talent Management
By Dean Foster and Lauren Herring, CRP, SGMS

The Global Mobility and Talent Management Partnership Opportunity
By Scott Sullivan

Talent Management Strategy Discussions in Asia
By Christine Wilson

It Never Rains in Seattle
By Ronald Huiskamp, GMS, and Kari Hamilton

Lending Regulatory Changes and the Effect on Transferees and Your Mobility Policy
By Karen Gerba

It All Adds Up - Expatriate Compensation Collection and Considerations for Consistent Program Compliancy
By Chris Pardo, GMS

Israel - Milk, Honey, and Natural Gas
By Tsvi Kan-Tor, Amit Acco, and Adam Greenstein

Rethinking ROI
By Ellie Sullivan, SCRP, SGMS, and Tim McCarney, GMS

The Mobile Workforce: the New Rules of Engagement
By Kathy Sharo

An Overview of Expatriate Housing in China
By Alex Chua, GMS

China Mobility: Understanding the Places, Policies, Practices, and People for Successful Relocation
By Avrom Goldberg and Lorraine Jennings

Effective Virtual Communication and Team Meetings with Your Chinese Customers and Co-workers
By Sheida Hodge

Awakening Giant - India’s Burgeoning Workforce
By Charlene Solomon and Sean Dubberke

Africa: Land of Exhilarating Contrasts
By Gene Edgerton and Nancy Ruth

Uncovering the Universal Qualities of an Effective Manager
By Robert F. Burch, SCRP

Three Steps to Managing Culture Shock
By Margarita Gokun Silver

Strategic Planning—Back to Basics
By Michelle Sandlin, CRP

If you are in the expat, global mobility and/or relocation industries, happy reading! Andrea

Measuring Expat ROI - New Report From Yvonne McNulty

Hi Everyone, Our friend Yvonne McNulty in Singapore released last week her new industry report: Measuring Expatriate Return On Investment In Global Firms, which is a great read for anyone working or interested in the field of expatriate management, talent recruitment and/or human resources.

To gather data for the report, Yvonne surveyed 51 expatriates from five global firms. The combined total employee population represented by those firms was 653,000.

Two key findings in the report:

• 36% of expatriates seek external job opportunities during their assignments - which infers that HR needs to focus not just on retention at the end of international assignments, but throughout employee assignments abroad; and

• Expat ROI is not formally measured. Companies rely instead on the employee performance appraisal process - however, how effective is this process of measurement, when the expats surveyed believed the performance appraisal process measured the wrong things?

Yvonne, perhaps best known for her Trailing Spouse Survey four years ago, is a PhD candidate in the Department of Management, Faculty of Business and Economics, Monash University, Australia. She is a sought-after speaker on the topic of expat return on investment (ROI) and can be contacted here.

Well done, Yvonne, and happy reading everyone!

Expat ROI

Hello again, Just a quick link to an interesting article about Expat ROI (return on investment) on Human Resource Executive Online...

"So what exactly is your company's return on investment after sending an employee on an international assignment? (Don't worry; most other companies don't know the answer, either.)

After paying for flights, housing or schools, HR executives are all too familiar with shelling out big dollars for employees on international assignments, but calculating the return on that investment can be extremely illusive.

Only 3 percent of companies are able to track ROI for international placements, according to the International Assignments Survey 2008, a new analysis of more than 200 multinational firms by New York-based consultancy Mercer."

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