The antecedents of performance management among Finnish expatriates

The present study aims at increasing the understanding of existing expatriate performance management practices, their efficiency and related contextual factors. The descriptive findings mainly support the picture arising from the few earlier studies identified, but also bring out several new ideas such as the use of team goals. Second, key performance management practices influencing the perceived efficiency of the system were identified, the key finding being that expatriate performance management with officially set performance goals and formal performance evaluation increases the efficiency of the process. The results further show that a company's level of internationalization, its size, the position of the expatriate in the organizational hierarchy, his or her task type, the location of the host unit and the structure of the organization influence performance management practices.