1978
DOI: 10.2307/41164782
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Training Expatriates for Managerial Assignments in Japan

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“…This practice is similar to US MNCs (Tung, 1984), but different from Japanese and British MNCs (Hamill, 1987; Tung, 1984). This finding does not lend support to Harrari and Zeira (1978) who suggest that to ease the acculturation process and to avoid costly mistakes expatriates should be exempted from active management duties in the first six months of arrival in a foreign country. No local management and former expatriates are called in to participate and assist in performance appraisal for expatriates.…”
Section: Empirical Findingscontrasting
confidence: 73%
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“…This practice is similar to US MNCs (Tung, 1984), but different from Japanese and British MNCs (Hamill, 1987; Tung, 1984). This finding does not lend support to Harrari and Zeira (1978) who suggest that to ease the acculturation process and to avoid costly mistakes expatriates should be exempted from active management duties in the first six months of arrival in a foreign country. No local management and former expatriates are called in to participate and assist in performance appraisal for expatriates.…”
Section: Empirical Findingscontrasting
confidence: 73%
“…The literature suggests a link between performance expectations and expatriate failure rates, in that company expectations of high performance may contribute to failure. To ease the acculturation process and avoid costly mistakes, expatriates should be exempted from active management duties in the first six months of arrival in a foreign country (Harrari and Zeira, 1978). Tung (1984) found that US multinationals generally do not allow the expatriates sufficient time to adapt to the foreign environment; hence the individual may be labeled as a misfit too soon.…”
Section: Conduct Of Performance Appraisalsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…To ease the acculturation process and avoid costly mistakes, expatriates should be exempted from active management duties in the first six months of arrival in a foreign country. 11 There are debates on the advantages and disadvantages of using different nationals for appraising expatriates. The reasons for using different nationals as appraisers are as follows 12 :…”
Section: International Performance Appraisal Methodsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Para facilitar el proceso de aculturación y evitar errores costosos, se debería dar, al personal expatriado, los primeros seis meses desde su llegada al país de acogida para que se adapte al nuevo país (Harrari, E. y Zeira, Y. , 1978).…”
Section: 5 5 Frecuencia De La Evaluación De Desempeño Del Personal Ex...unclassified