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International Assessment and Development Service -- 1

INTRODUCTION

Tucker International offers an Assessment Service for employees and their spouses who are considering or preparing for international assignments. These can either be expatriate assignments outside one's home country, or assignments that require working with other nationalities, but based at home. This service comes from many years of empirical research on the critical factors of intercultural adjustment and success and how one's ability to achieve these factors can be assessed prior to an international assignment.

At the core of this service is the Overseas Assignment Inventory (OAI), a self-response instrument, and the accompanying supervisory International Candidate Evaluation (ICE). These instruments assess:

· Motivations for seeking or accepting an international assignment

· Expectations about such an assignment

· Attitudes and attributes that contribute to intercultural adjustment

The database for the OAI and ICE is thousands of people who have completed them and been followed up later during their international assignments. Individual profiles are created for respondents, and then compared to this database.

Over forty different nationalities are included in this database, so the service is used for people all over the world who are preparing for international assignments. The OAI and ICE are available in English, French and German, and can be used in booklet form or by means of the internet at www.tuckerintl.com.

This Assessment Service is delivered directly by Dr. Michael F. Tucker, author of the OAI and ICE and director of the research and development activities that are the foundation of the service. A consultative approach is used with clients to apply the service in very flexible ways, since each client organization has very different needs and circumstances.