How to pick and manage expats

A Newspaper article by Scott Bellows, an Assistant Professor in the Chandaria School of Business at USIU-AfricaNairobi stands proudly as the envy of many nations in the global south. We host a thriving metropolis of foreign workers, investors, and visitors desirous of our melting pot of ideas across hundreds of cultures. Our welcoming philosophy, enviable climate, and generally favourable immigration policies all boost Kenya’s economic prowess. We win the regional headquarters of nearly every Africa-oriented multinational corporation.Conversely, Kenya flourishes as a provider of foreign labour. We export an estimated five times the workers than we import. Our citizens traverse the globe working in professions from accountants, NGO executives, technologists, nurses, researchers, professors, and highly skilled experts in various fields from oil extractions to mining to entrepreneurial startups. Stewart Black and Hal Gregersen uncovered that nearly 80 per cent of midsize and large companies send professionals abroad. Also, almost half of such organisations intend to increase the number of expatriates in their global operations. As Kenyan firms continue to expand throughout the region, like Kenya Commercial Bank, Resolution Health, Nakumatt, and Equity Bank, or throughout the world, such as Craft Silicon, executives must learn which types of employees to send abroad and how to manage them. Not all expatriates succeed. In fact, certain types of expatriates succeed far better than others. Kelly Ross delineated five attributes of successful expatriates based on an amalgamation of expatriate-related studies. Professionals with high ratings in the categories stand a greater probability of success