Inpatriate managers: How to increase the probability of success

Developing multicultural management teams has gained increasing importance in many global organizations. One global staffing option inpatriate manager s - has the potential to provide a more multicultural management frame-of-r eference when developing global strategies; Inpatriates have social knowled ge of global operations and countries facilitating the modification of orga nizational strategies to local competitive/market conditions while ensuring their consistency and coordination with the existing global strategic thru st. This paper addresses the need to provide an effective mechanism for inc reasing the success rate of inpatriate managers thus improving the global p erformance of the organization. To achieve enhanced organizational performa nce the need for a proactive inpatriate program is critical to engender lon g-term commitment and loyalty of inpatriate managers.