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,” para. Similarly, many industries use best practices to design and implement global staffing systems (Wiechmann, Ryan, & Hemingway, 2003). Additionally, thanks to TEKsystems' best practice efforts, the company has a high growth rate and has proven this by employing over 80,000 IT consultants each year (S. O'Connor, personal communication, March 29,