Importance Of Pre-Departure Training For Expatriate’s Career Advancement

Abstract

Purpose – Researchers have been focussing on different types of training, career development of repatriates but it was unclear on how the pre-departure training has its impact on career advancement. The purpose of this paper is to develop a comprehensive framework in building a relationship between pre-departure training and career advancement.

Design/Methodology/Approach – The review of past research is used to develop Conceptual framework.

Findings –This conceptual paper provides insight on relationship between pre-departure training and career advancement. It is found that the skills acquired during the pre-departure training can help an expatriate in his career progress.

Originality/Value – The proposed framework is developed based on the past research in order to cover the gap between pre-departure training and career advancement. Based on the proposed framework this paper invites researchers to further research on relationship between pre-departure training and career advancement with employee competencies as mediating variable.