International Dimensions of Organizational Behavior 5th Edition by Nancy Adler ,Allison Gundersen

Exercise 4

The Trailing Spouse Is the Husband. Both women and men face difficult challenges when transferred abroad in the role of spouse. Which challenges would be particularly difficult for a male spouse (the husband of a female expatriate manager)? If you were vice president of human resources for a major global firm and had chosen to send women abroad as global managers for the first time, what would you do to prepare their husbands for their new role?