Tham khảo tài liệu 'practical applications and recommendations for hr and od professionals in the global workplace_7', kinh doanh - tiếp thị, quản trị kinh doanh phục vụ nhu cầu học tập, nghiên cứu và làm việc hiệu quả | Global Selection 149 CEO an American CPO and a Chinese CFO and it will be listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange p. 210 . Another reason to think hard about global selection processes is that there are employees in MNCs who may be based locally but act globally that is interact extensively beyond just on the phone with other cultures in terms of both internal and external clients. This may be for example the French national who is responsible for the Southern Hemisphere of an energy company and spends much of her time on the road. She will deal extensively with Asians South Americans and Africans including many of the different cultures in those regions. Regardless of where she is based she will need to have experience with and work well with many different nationalities. Clearly this will require significant travel. Indeed Welch and Worm 2006 indicate that the issue of IBTs International Business Travelers has been under researched. They quote an Australian executive as saying On average I would go to Asia for two weeks and come back go to the . for two weeks and come back go to Europe for two weeks and come back. And the next time I went to Asia I would probably go to a different part of it. I guess I was away if you accumulated it for 8 to 9 months of the year p. 283 . Such a lifestyle will certainly involve dealing with other nationalities and cultures on a regular if short-term basis. One of the authors worked with a director who manages a country in Asia by flying from the United States every two weeks to spend two weeks in country. This went on for years. Aside from the IBTs however there are people in many if not most MNCs who travel routinely and are thus required to deal with many different cultures. In regions like Asia where countries are relatively close to each other traveling from one country to another for a meeting is relatively common for a growing subset of employees. For those who do not travel moreover the use of videoconferencing is growing
