Abstract
The headquarters’ supports assist oversea subsidiaries when they face problems of technology and management. Our suggestion in this paper is that expatriate-experienced staffs in the headquarters’ support system can have important roles although researchers in the literature of expatriates pay less attention to the roles of expatriates after returning to their home country, but have emphasized that the expatriates play distinctive and significant roles as a means of managing the learning and transfer of management competence, and having effective control over international subsidiaries of multinational corporations （MNCs）. This study examines the strategic integration of expatriate assignments into the human resource activities that firms utilize to develop human resources. Results indicate that strategic expatriate management practices would include the activities from selection to repatriation.
