Open AccessFlexibility – As Feature and Ability in the Expatriate’s Qualification Profile
Author(s) -
Sylwia Przytuła
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
edukacja ekonomistów i menedżerów
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 1734-087X
DOI - 10.5604/01.3001.0009.6294
Subject(s) - expatriate , adaptability , flexibility (engineering) , subsidiary , business , component (thermodynamics) , work (physics) , personality , personality profile , big five personality traits , psychology , knowledge management , computer science , management , multinational corporation , engineering , social psychology , political science , economics , finance , mechanical engineering , physics , law , thermodynamics
Increased geographical mobility, cultural flexibility, adaptability to different cultural conditions are demanded the most often from expatriates, i.e. the employees sent by corporate headquarters to work in foreign subsidiaries. The goal of this article is to present the flexibility (in terms of skills and personality traits), as a component of the expatriate’s qualification profile and to present the forms of foreign assignments which are alternative to traditional expatriation (flexpatriate contracts).