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Tex-Mark, a company was started in the late 1970’s, is a manufacturer of printer and optical scanner in the United States and across the globe. Tex Mark inherited a production facility in San Antonio. And also had international facility in three countries: Mexico, Scotland and India. Then moved product development, sales and distribution to other countries. Such as Australia, Brazil France, India Israel and Hong Kong. The company takes employees: expatriates, and places them within those countries to run their engineering operations abroad. Tex Mark also has developed a training program for these expatriate, like pre-departure activities, in-country training and development and repatriation. However, this program has not give the Tex-Mark the value of expectation

Eric Christopher, Associate Director for Globe HR development at Tex-Mark. He had graduated from Churchill high school and Baylor University in Waco, Texas with a major in History and Spanish. He had spent his time to backpack around Europe and South America then had four years experiences worked in Southwest Airlines. Eric has much experience with languages, as he is proficient in Spanish, French, Italian, German and a little bit of Cantonese as well. Fred Bank, a Dell engineer that had stayed on with Tex-Mark after the spin-off in 1978. He had three assignments: the first one is in Scotland in 1983, the second is in Mexico in 1989 then the third one is in 1999 in India. However, he only made the first assignment to be successful. In the period in Mexico there were many unavoidable economic uncertainties made the assignment did not go very smoothly. The last one, in India, an 18 months assignment had turn into 3 years