Living Abroad: Personal Adjustment and Personnel Policy in Overseas Setting

Author: Ingemar Torbiorn
List Price: $59.95
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ISBN: 0471100943
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons (November, 1982)
Sales Rank: 1,211,407
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An overview of information provided
International contact. International business in a social-psychological perspective.Manning practices in international companies. Expatriate roles. Selection and training for overseas assignments. A psychology of adjustment in an unknown and total setting. Determinants of expatriate satisfaction. Culture shock and the U-shaped adjustment curve. Culture barriers such as homesickness, the ambassadorial feeling, and family solidarity. Children such as bilingual children, linguistic knowledge and home language, and home language and age on arrival in host country. Work such as posts and conditions of service, job satisfaction, changes in job satifaction, and problems at work. It also includes comments. This is an overall excellent booke for people living abroad. It even includes a calculation formula for you to be able to calculate the type of country you will be most happy in.

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