What challenges face repatriated managers when they return from a foreign assignment? How do these problems affect employers?

What will be an ideal response?

Repatriated managers may not know what their new job back home will entail. They may have enjoyed considerable authority abroad that will not continue at home. They may feel out of the loop on changes that have occurred at the home office. They and their families may have enjoyed a higher social status in the host country than they will enjoy after returning home. The repatriation problem can be expensive for a firm. By some estimates one-quarter of all repatriated employees leave their employer within a year after returning home. The average U.S. expatriate costs the employer about $300,000 per year and stays three to four years on an overseas assignment; thus, each repatriated executive who leaves the firm represents a million-dollar investment walking out the door.