Issues of Effective Repatriation: A Model and Managerial Implications‪.‬

Basically, I find that companies have three ways of treating expatriates. One is like Ford Motor Company--to develop them in the small company to run the larger company later. In other words, they send them to Argentina or Italy to run a plant, and then bring them back to run a bigger plant in Germany or the U.S. The second is what Texas Instrument does. They have a league of professional experts that go from one foreign assignment to another, very well paid, but no expectation of ever coming home. And (name of the firm) represents the third and the worst kind, where they treat you like a milking cow--they extract what they need from you and let you go out to pasture. Reflections of a repatriated manager interviewed by the authors. (1) **********