Language assessment for multilingual positions in multinational companies

• Autor(a) principal: Darabi, Sanaz Mohammadi
• Data de Publicação: 2022
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/10773/36414
• topic: Globalization; Multinationals; Multilingualism; Communication; Business acumen

Globalization has stimulated different frameworks of activities and the presence of multinational companies operating all over the world, gives rise to a need for a specific organization. Multilingualism is an asset both valued and caused by globalization. Three out of four multinational companies now manage at least twenty or more branches outside of their own country (Feely and Harzing, 2003 p. 37). The need for speakers of different languages in operational units of multinational companies in different countries or regions comes about due to the mere fact that multinational companies operate all over the world. Having to deal with the challenge of frequently being unable to find native speakers of the target language in the function, recruiters have different options in making the final choice among the available profiles for the vacant positions.