Furthermore, best practices are defined as “business or professional procedures that are accepted or prescribed as correct or most effective” (Oxford English Dictionary, 2016, “Best Practice”, par. 68). Likewise, numerous industries use best practices to design and implement global staffing systems (Wiechmann, Ryan, & Hemingway, 2003). Additionally, due to TEKsystems' use of best practices, the company has a high growth rate and has demonstrated this by employing over 80,000 IT consultants each year (S. O'Connor, personal communication, March 29,