DEVELOPMENT OF GLOBAL CAREER CAPITAL THROUGH EXPATRIATION

To meet the challenges of increasingly international operating environment, exploring and developing global competencies of people throughout the organization becomes essential for companies, whether the main market is at home or abroad. Understanding about global competencies and possible impacts of different development methods is a starting point in planning and carrying out activities with such purpose. At the same time, organizations ’ ability to influence this development process has become increasingly limited. The importance and value of acquired competencies depends to increasing extent on the subjective needs and expectations of an individual. From the individual career capital perspective, Finnish expatriates were interviewed focusing on the perceived development of global career capital during foreign work experiences and its transferability into new contexts, home or abroad