The internationalisation of business has resulted in the
increasing use of expatriates to oversee growing numbers
of international operations. In the private sector
International Human Resource Management literature, the
effective management of expatriates is recommended to
involve attention to their selection, preparation,
management and repatriation. This study presents the
results of research which ascertains the importance of
these four aspects in contributing to the success of
expatriate assignments. As public and non-government
sector organisations also have considerable experience
in the management of expatriates, repatriates from all
three sectors participated in the research. The results
confirm the importance of selection, preparation,
management and repatriation in contributing to the
success of expatriate assignments. Furthermore, the
non-government sector repatriates were more united in
their opinions as they consistently rated these aspects
as being more important than repatriates in the other
two sectors. pdf
