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Organisational Behaviour
INTRODUCTION
Businesses throughout the world have always been in an ongoing struggle with the need to locate and retain the right human resource, in addition to ensuring that this resource is in the right place at the right time Drummond, H., & EBSCO Publishing. (2004). For a long time the business world, particularly in relation to human resource, has been exceptionally competitive, however recent trends (such as globalization) "The capitalist world-economy has no single political center it has been able to flourish precisely because [it] has had within its bounds not one but a multiplicity of political systems, which has given capitalists a freedom of maneuver that is structurally based and has made possible the constant expansion of the world-system" (1974: p348). This has vastly increased the requirements for resource to be sourced on a global scale as the work environments question numerous corporate ethics and business practices, specifically benefit packages, localization of Human Resource Policies/ Processes and cultures. In addition to the standard resource required there is an increasing need for all successful business leaders to be, at least bilingual and more and more preference is shown to those business leaders who are multilingual. This is presenting a far greater challenge to the business community than the standard awareness and leadership training. Discovering multilingual business leaders with enough seniority and the necessary business acumen and skills is far more challenging than it would appear Gina Poncini ...