Abstract
More companies are going global in order to be in touch with the more customers as possible. To do that, first they have to outsource their activities, then, for getting the best management they want to reach, these companies and use a management that they have never used before: taking advantage of expatriates. Thus, their goal is to have managers who have a thorough knowledge of different ways of thinking, of managing, another point of view, and who can assimilate to various cultures. According to Black: "You still have to have certain business results. The key is that you make sure you don't insist on the same means to the same result. If a different approach will get it done in a different country, that's the way to go. You have to care about the results more than the method."
But expatriates can also be in a company for training local employees to a specific company culture. In spite of the expatriates' assignment is, for the most part, short-term assignment, the human resources manager of the home country company has to lead the expatriate and to support him throughout his mission.
