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Expatriate Executives and Global HR Management
As companies "go global" by strategic choice or market
necessity, there are many human resource management challenges. In
many respects, companies confront human resources issues similar to those
found in the US Foreign Service or other diplomatic services.
Typically, this involves a relatively small number of managers or executives
who are reassigned from their home country to other places as "expatriate"
management, and a much larger number of locally hired employees. In a
global company, however, such local employees may advance to not only manage
their local operations, but also become expatriate managers themselves to
grow the company elsewhere.
The founder of this company,
Bruce Donnelly, worked as a Foreign
Service Officer (Department of State) in Washington DC, Pakistan and Germany
prior to international management consulting work at Deloitte & Touche in
Brazil, after which he represented the Brussels-based global business location strategy
consultants of PricewaterhouseCoopers in the USA for five years. This provides
first-hand experience from the expatriate executive's point of view, as well
as from the strategic management perspective of the organization which is
setting up a new operation in another country. He has met with senior
executives at 1000+ companies to discuss how to support their business
expansion plans in the USA and in countries around the world.
Although the main focus of our work is to assist
executives as they plan new operations anywhere - whether at a new location
in their own country or somewhere else - the information we share about
professional service providers and information resources for the global
deployment of business operations may be helpful to human resources
management professionals in other contexts.
For example, the ongoing support, performance evaluation,
relocation, or consolidation of existing operations involves many of the
same considerations as the initial strategic decision to invest at a new
business location. As companies and competitive markets change, past
decisions about how and where to deploy corporate resources most effectively
- including human resources - may require periodic reconsideration and
realignment with the current market analysis, business strategy, and
business development plans rather than past perceptions of the future
direction of the company.
We have therefore highlighted some resources through the
links on this page which we think may be helpful to HR management
professionals, but we welcome the opportunity to offer personal referrals
according to your specific interests. Please
contact us to discuss how we may help you.
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Independent research and professional referrals
Our research and referral work helps executives and their professional
advisors to develop projects faster and better in places which fit their own
business location strategies for the deployment of their operations and
human resources in new
and existing markets through corporate expansion, consolidation, and
relocation projects such as new offices, factories, or warehouses.
We assist corporate executives and advisors by personally
and independently introducing valuable information resources and leading
professional service providers, including relevant economic development
organizations in the USA or worldwide according to their interests..
We make it easier for executives and
their advisors to find good places to do business. Like a
well-informed concierge, we apply our market research and knowledge to introduce
solutions personally as an independent service which benefits the
executives, professionals, and communities involved.
The executives we serve are typically "C-level" - CEO, COO,
CFO - or senior management such as Vice Presidents and other executives with
line responsibility for the success of new operations, or members of the
management team who are engaged in planning specific aspects of a new
project. Our research work also assists professional business advisors
as they support such executives. We
welcome suggestions of useful professional services or resources to
share through this channel so that other executives and business advisors
can easily discover their relevant capabilities.
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Other resources for HR executives
In addition to the Google site search tool above, which
makes it very easy to find almost anything on our main website,
www.gdi-solutions.com ,
these links may be of special interest to human resources management
professionals or other senior executives as they consider the HR issues and
implications of business location choices, including the comparative
evaluation of existing business locations or competitors, as corporate
operations are redeployed.
- Directory of
human resources professional service providers, including
- International assignment solutions or expatriate
services, typically including topics such as corporate and personal tax
compliance, international compensation and benefits programs, expatriate
executive management policies and other issues.
- Executive security - training and protective
services, security risk consulting
- International executive search or placement services
- Associations, publications, and other research
sources
- Expatriate networks and cross-cultural training and
information resources
- International insurance for employees on foreign
assignments
- Immigration and visa services
- Translation and interpreting services, language
training
- Relocation or mobility services - moving families,
business operations
- Human
Resources - sources of information and services
- Wages and benefits research
- Demographic, labor market, and workforce data for US
states and other regions
- Recruitment and training programs for US states and
other regions
- Investment
incentives and credits, project finance and tax information
- Business location strategy and site selection
consultants, incentives specialists
- Corporate
tax advisors
and international
legal advisors
- Project management - architects, engineers,
construction, environmental consultants
- Corporate real estate firms
and property listing services
- Corporate development -
general strategy
consultants and project finance services
- Directory
of US Governors - and state government websites
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The Links section highlights
some of the many resources found on our main website.
The
Global Contacts
directory on our main website provides links to other types of professional
service providers by specialty, and business locations by global region.
Our regional directories may also include separate
lists of professional service providers, such as companies which specialize
in work within that region, or the local offices of global services.
This can make it easier to identify professionals with local market
knowledge and contacts.
The listing of any service provider in these
directories does not represent any endorsement or representation on our part
about their services, nor by them about ours.
We selectively list professionals whose capabilities we
believe may be of interest to the executives we serve, and welcome feedback
about their work to assist in our research and personal referrals.
We also work together with some service providers to
share additional information about their capabilities, such as through
Service Profiles or other work, in which case we openly disclose any such
working relationship.
This helps us to improve and share the base of market
knowledge which enables us to make helpful referrals, but our referral work
is independent, driven by the interests of the executives we serve and the
choices they make about which service providers to use.
Once again, we
welcome suggestions of useful professional services or resources to
share so that other executives and business advisors
can easily discover their relevant capabilities.
Please share your "war stories" about "lessons learned"
as well as "proven solutions" to the many challenges of setting up business
operations in new locations. That includes the challenge of relocating
or consolidating existing operations, as in the context of post-merger
integration work.
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