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5 tips for working in a global workplace Globalization brings in many challenges and opportunities to the 21st century workforce. Work related travel, long work hours, teleconferencing worldwide and being virtual are some of the modern-day gifts to the workers. Globalization brings in many challenges and opportunities to the 21st century workforce. One of the major challenges is to efficiently collaborate ...

While Switzerland is now a Schengen Member, the Swiss airports border control will remail in place until March 29, 2009 where its Schengen operation will begin. There are several changes to visa requirements as an impact to the Schengen Membership of Switzerland.  

With business and the economy becoming globally focused, many companies are sending their employees overseas. This global workforce has created new career opportunities for job seekers interested in the human resources field. What does a global human resources professional do? A little bit of everything. Individuals being sent abroad by their companies have many questions and need a variety of services ...

Whether you manage a workgroup, oversee a division or run a billion-dollar corporation, to lead in our global economy means to adapt continuously. That means successful executives with an international portfolio must view their own education as a career-long endeavor. Employers have responded to this need with a growing array of global leadership training programs. Whether they’re intensive three-day workshops, a ...

Linda Akutagawa, immersed in a training session for IBM's Asian American Network, laughs when asked her opinion about the small number of Asian Americans in high-level jobs. For Akutagawa, director of external relations for Leadership Education for Asian Pacifics, such seminars are all in a day's work, but she says they're hardly typical at other companies. She points out that IBM ...

Picture yourself starring in a foreign movie that lacks both a script and a director. You hear everyone’s words but feel you need subtitles to truly understand what’s going on. Sound confusing? That sense of dislocation is what global work experts say you can expect during the first six months of adapting to the rigors and challenges of a global work ...

If globalization were put to a popular vote in the United States, it would lose, according to Jeffrey Immelt, CEO of General Electric, one of the world’s largest multinational employers. Opponents of globalization contend that an economic race to the bottom is under way as workers in First World economies will be forced to cut their standard of living to compete ...

In Mid-April I travelled to Bangalore, India to deliver a two-day workshop on Advanced Talent Management. The workshop is aimed at sophisticated and senior talent management and HR professionals (most of whom will have read books like “The World is Flat” by Thomas Friedman and other authors like Jim Collins, Marcus Buckingham, Jeffrey Pfeffer, etc.). I facilitate this workshop throughout Asia, ...

The Work Permit Validity is now seen to last for maximum of three years. However, authorities advised that in 2009, the permits will only be for 12 months. This is most likely a strategy to transition for the longer validity of the Work Permit.  

The internationalization of companies presents the marketing-management with new challenges. On the one hand, independent market cultivation in terms of a country-specific optimization of marketing activities is no longer possible because of interdependencies between the marketplaces. On the other hand, spatial, cultural and temporal distances between the headquarter and the foreign markets complicate efficient central planning and execution of marketing activities ...

Dependents are crucial pieces of Expatriate Living. One of the most effective tool that make dependents happier is the implementation of a Cross Cultural Training to all parties.

Cross Culture was also identified in JNT Consulting LLC Blog with a Title, "Cross Cultural Competencies Benefits Business Success" it quoted that; "One of the challenges in doing business in the global en

Expatriate Living in another country has a lot of challenges. It entails many tasks that you have never come across unless you have a prior experience. As a green horn in the expatriate community you are challenged with