Question

Borstorff and her associates examined a number of factors related to employee willingness and concluded that married couples without children at home or those with non-teenage children are the least willing to accept an overseas assignment. True False

Answer 1

Answer:

False

Explanation:

Patricia Borstorff and her associates studied employee willingness to work overseas, i.e. to become expatriates. She found that a large percentage of expatriates suffered problems not only on foreign countries but most importantly at home once their assignment was finished.

Family dysfunction was one of the problems, but it wasn't the most severe one. Many expatriates felt that after coming back home their careers suffered, they felt undervalued and many times suffered depression.

Around 50% of expatriates leave their company after returning to the US within a 3 year period and only a few of those who remain at the company end up in a better position than before.