Program consulting

When deploying an international workforce, the most challenging task is implementing ideal management processes that reduce risk and minimize costs while obtaining a meaningful assessment of performance results. The international assignment delivery structure has to be efficient and it has to use technology effectively. Most importantly, the assignment program must match and meet the objectives of your organization.

PricewaterhouseCoopers can assist you in putting the best program in place that meets the unique needs of your organization. We offer various tools and services across the following areas to keep you informed and help you to evaluate what will work best to meet your companies need and the needs of your international employees, while maintaining efficiency, cost-effectiveness and a competitive edge.

Policy benchmarking

Annually, we conduct a global survey of multinational companies regarding assignment policy and procedures and we can use this range of data to assist you in benchmarking your program against your industry and most admired companies.

Policy design/Redesign & implementation

International assignment policy issues may surface as a result from rapid growth, mergers or outdated policies that are no longer effective. Our approach to re-design and policy development encourages "buy in" from your stakeholders and related functions in your organization before working with you to implement new policy.

Strategic program analysis

Sometimes it helps to take a step back and consider whether or not your strategies support one another. Your corporate strategy, HR strategy and assignment strategy should all be aligned. There are ways in which you can measure the health of your program and overall process and identify those areas that need fixing, including the distribution of surveys to evaluate the satisfaction among assignees and program managers.

ROI study

How do you measure success? Success of a sales force is in the numbers, but what about those victories and less tangible defeats? We can provide you with a detailed report that measures the return on investment of an assignment, whether it was sales or creative, management or clerical.

Expatriate communications

We strive to keep your international workforce connected. We can help ensure that policies, processes and other necessary information is being shared with assignees in a timely manner, and we offer our services to assist in monitoring exactly what is being said to the assignee.