14 Women’s Role in International
Management
Hilary Harris1 Introduction 357
2 Women in international management: getting there 359
3 Women in international management: critical issues 366
4 Advantages for female international managers 376
5 Summary and conclusions 378
6 Discussion questions 378
7 Further reading 379
References 380
1 INTRODUCTION
The importance of international assignments as a key method of developing the
future senior management of international organisations and of fostering diver-
sity in the management population has been highlighted in previous chapters.
Recent survey evidence (ORC, 1997) shows that this is a growing trend, with
63% of responding organisations indicating that they were planning to increase
the number of international assignments in Asia and 54% also planning to
increase international assignments in Europe. Over 60% of the assignments
were single trips with planned repatriation. This confirms the importance of
international experience as part of management development.