The Worldwide ERC Foundation for Workforce Mobility and Thunderbird School of Management recently released findings from a study, which identifies the attributes that determine the "success potential" of an assignee during his/her international assignment. With a growing number of companies sending their employees on short-term assignments, this study may be highly valuable to those who are involved in the candidate selection process.
The study determined that much of the success rate is based on the assignee's ability to possess a "global mindset" -- which is defined as "individual attributes that enable an expat to successfully influence those who are different from him/her." The research points to three components that make up the global mindset, which includes, intellectual capital, psychological capital and social capital...read more.
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