TY - THES A1 - Becker, Jamila T1 - Global Mobility - Failure or Success and possible Improvements of the Reintegration of International Assignments N2 - In the current era of globalization and internationalization, markets spread across borders and companies need to line up internationally. The question is how to manage the employees in this global context. This study looks at the use of international assignments as a solution of transferring employees internationally. Especially, this paper focuses on the reintegration of internally assigned employees. Corresponding to the literature, the reintegration proves to be the most difficult stage in an international assignment, as most companies still underestimate the impact and do not invest sufficient in this phase. Therefore, the thesis aims to identify how the reintegration is handled in organizations and which aspects can be considered as critical in this process. Consequently, on the basis of analysis, the author comes up with improvement options. In order, to receive detailed insights in the experiences and opinions of dispatched employees and human resource managers of multinational companies, the author used a qualitative research method (expert interviews). Results show that there is not a great need for cultural reintegration measures, as expatriates assume coming home to be easy and human resource managers do not see the willingness and demand for such arrangements. Anyhow, interviewees described problems in the new work environment and mentioned the request for some enhancements. Therefore, this thesis discusses improvement options for the re-entry, including a reintegration plan set in agreement with the employee and the company before the assignment. KW - Expatriate KW - Repatriate KW - Reintegration of expatriates KW - Improvement options KW - Qualitative content analysis Y1 - 2018 UR - https://opus4.kobv.de/opus4-rhein-waal/frontdoor/index/index/docId/214 UR - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hbz:1383-opus4-2147 ER -