PM Network, July 1st, 2005
WHEN SENDING EMPLOYEES ON long-term expatriate assignments, COMPANIES MUST SUPPLY CULTURAL TRAINING AND SUPPORT OPPORTUNITIES THROUGHOUT THE PROJECT LIFE CYCLE. expatriate assignments, in which project managers take long-term posiions in foreign offices, are expensive and risky propositions. The hard cost of sending a project manager on an overseas assignment is roughly three to four times that person's salary per year, and failure rates-due to low productivity or the employee abandoning the assignment-are as high as 45 percent, says Revel Miller, Ph.D., a licensed psychologist and principal ...
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