3.5 Retention of Employees
Employees are ‘human souls’ that management is dealing with; they are people who bear knowledge and skills that cannot be taken away. In order to retain these people, it is important to encourage them to constantly upgrade their skills and keep themselves current, while sending them overseas or on special seminars. Multi-national companies “increasingly value international experience in their human capital” (Carpenter, Sanders & Gregersen, 2001, cited in Toh & DeNisi, 2003: 607). An employee’s knowledge would be very valuable, especially if it was received from overseas, because he or she would acquire skills, expertise which might not be easy