Colgate‐Palmolive database captures cultural awareness: Expatriate knowledge put to good use

Abstract

Colgate‐Palmolive Co. has extended a system, originally used only for global succession‐planning, into a valuable expatriate knowledge database. The database contains information – made available throughout the company’s worldwide network – on each manager’s experience or awareness of different cultures.

Citation

(2003), "Colgate‐Palmolive database captures cultural awareness: Expatriate knowledge put to good use", Human Resource Management International Digest, Vol. 11 No. 6, pp. 19-22. https://doi.org/10.1108/09670730310494629