International Mobility

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International mobility is a term that has been adopted by LVMH to regard moving their employees on international duty (Mamende, 2008). This is however based on the how the same cannot be impended by other factors. The impediments can either be personal or systematic. While the former involves issues like physical and psychological ability of the person who intends to be mobilized, the latter is in regards to issues like finances, political atmosphere, laws, amongst others. It has been credited for being a steering factor towards innovation and creativity.

In this recent wave of international mobility, LVMH has not been left behind. It has enhanced international mobility as a way of enhancing perpetual movement rather than the traditional systematic repatriation as experienced through the traditional expatriation concepts (Baruch, 2006). It has embraced the concept whole heartedly and has gone ahead and implemented it in all its regions all over the world.

This has however not had its own hurdles. To begin with, LVMH is a relatively young organization. Its young age is deemed to be a detractor as out of its youth, it fails to have well defined cultures upon which it can be cultivated upon when implementing some of these policies. What ought to be appreciated is that LVMH has outdone most of its competitors in the market, however it has not yet achieved its optimum, thus the need to always diversify itself. In such diversification moves, it has embraced international mobilization. However, there are challenges as to how to police the concept well due to lack of previous procedures. What is common knowledge, success is based on trial and error, in this case, LVMH seems to be generating its own testing ground with no precedence to n...

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