TY - JOUR
T1 - The impact of individual performance on organizational success and its implications for the management of expatriates
AU - Bonache, Jaime
AU - Noethen, D.
N1 - Funding Information:
Authors thank financial support from the Spanish Ministry of Science (ECO2012-37314).
PY - 2014/8
Y1 - 2014/8
N2 - In this paper, we present a new but simple typology of international assignments that can help guide the management of expatriates. Applying a well-known job typology by Jacobs, D. (1981, 'Toward a Theory of Mobility and Behavior in Organizations: An Inquiry into the Consequences of Some Relationships Between Individual Performance and Organizational Success,' American Journal of Sociology, 87, 684-707) and Baron, J.N., and Kreps, D.M. (1999, Strategic Human Resources: Frameworks for General Managers, New York: Wiley) to the international arena, we distinguish between star and guardian assignments. The essence of this distinction lies in a difference regarding a crucial relationship: the link between expatriate performance and organizational success. Drawing on two well-known case studies, we analyze the essential characteristics of and differences between star and guardian assignments, and deduct concrete consequences for the employment of specific human resource management policies along the expatriate cycle. The paper concludes with a discussion of theoretical and practical implications.
AB - In this paper, we present a new but simple typology of international assignments that can help guide the management of expatriates. Applying a well-known job typology by Jacobs, D. (1981, 'Toward a Theory of Mobility and Behavior in Organizations: An Inquiry into the Consequences of Some Relationships Between Individual Performance and Organizational Success,' American Journal of Sociology, 87, 684-707) and Baron, J.N., and Kreps, D.M. (1999, Strategic Human Resources: Frameworks for General Managers, New York: Wiley) to the international arena, we distinguish between star and guardian assignments. The essence of this distinction lies in a difference regarding a crucial relationship: the link between expatriate performance and organizational success. Drawing on two well-known case studies, we analyze the essential characteristics of and differences between star and guardian assignments, and deduct concrete consequences for the employment of specific human resource management policies along the expatriate cycle. The paper concludes with a discussion of theoretical and practical implications.
KW - expatriate performance
KW - international assignments
KW - star and guardian jobs
KW - transnational organizations
KW - workforce differentiation
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U2 - 10.1080/09585192.2013.870287
DO - 10.1080/09585192.2013.870287
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84896549028
SN - 0958-5192
VL - 25
SP - 1960
EP - 1977
JO - International Journal of Human Resource Management
JF - International Journal of Human Resource Management
IS - 14
ER -