Ways to ease the expats’ stress: Getting over the culture shock of working abroad
Human Resource Management International Digest
ISSN: 0967-0734
Article publication date: 11 January 2016
Abstract
Purpose
This paper aims to review the latest management developments across the globe and pinpoint practical implications from cutting-edge research and case studies.
Design/methodology/approach
This briefing is prepared by an independent writer who adds their own impartial comments and places the articles in context.
Findings
The study findings provide insights to organizations and their human resource department professionals as to how expatriates and their families can be impacted by stress when trying to adjust to work and life in unfamiliar surroundings. The authors highlight the need for support mechanisms to ease transitions and reduce stressors.
Practical implications
The paper provides strategic insights and practical thinking that have influenced some of the world’s leading organizations.
Originality/value
The briefing saves busy executives and researchers hours of reading time by selecting only the very best, most pertinent information and presenting it in a condensed and easy-to-digest format.
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Acknowledgements
Retraction notice
The Publisher wishes to retract the precis article “Ways to ease the expats’ stress: Getting over the culture shock of working abroad”, published in Human Resource Management International Digest, Vol. 24 No. 1, 2016. It has come to the attention of Emerald Publishing that this precis article contains large sections of unattributed text taken from the original research article “The impact of stressors during international assignments”, by Katherine Rosenbusch, Leonard J. Cerny II, David R. Earnest, published in Cross Cultural Management, Vol. 22 No. 3, 2015.
Precis articles are intended to summarise original academic research articles for a different audience, and should not include verbatim passages from the original articles. This error occurred due to a miscommunication in the commissioning process.
To avoid any repeated incidents of this nature, Emerald has fully revised its guidelines and briefed its Commissioning Editors. Human Resource Management International Digest sincerely apologises to the original authors and its readers for this error. The original article can be viewed here: https://doi.org/10.1108/CCM-09-2013-0134.
Citation
(2016), "Ways to ease the expats’ stress: Getting over the culture shock of working abroad", Human Resource Management International Digest, Vol. 24 No. 1, pp. 4-6. https://doi.org/10.1108/HRMID-09-2015-0145
Publisher
:Emerald Group Publishing Limited
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