Question

an empolyee from canada who is empolyeed by an american firm to work in their plant in mexico is called what?

Answer 1

An empolyee from Canada who is empolyeed by an american firm to work in their plant in mexico is called expatriate.

Expatriate refers to individual who live in foreign country temporarily for work. They may also relinquish citizenship in their home country to become a citizen of another. They play important role to complete business assignments worldwide.

The factors that are involved in the expatriation selection are: -

• Technical ability - Technical skill is one of the important criteria for selection of expatriate because this help the individual to perform the required terms.
• Cross-cultural suitability - This include language skills, culture empathy, attitude towards new cultures and personal and emotional stability. So this can be evaluated by identifying whether the expatriate has the ability to create and maintain natural relationship.
• Family requirement - Family especially spouse contribute towards the success of overseas assignment and impact the accompanying spouse on early return.
• Organization-specific requirements - The selected candidate reject the offer of international assignment when the spouse in not able to work in the host country or lack of work permit prevent accompanying spouse may cause the spouse difficulty in adjusting and result in failure. So, multinational provide assistance in such case.
• Language - Knowledge of host country's language is considered important for top-level management positions and make the expatriates and their families comfortable in the new environment.
• MNE requirements - This include training skills which can make the expatriate to train the others in the foreign country and negotiation skills that is important in international business environment.