Introduction Unilever‚ a multinational organisation‚ are geocentric in their approach to globalisation and have recently taken over a factory in China. This factory has had no previous relations with any international corporation and operates solely through a regiocentric style of management. Unilever wish to bring the Chinese factory into line with their current practices and to assist in the transition of the factory from a regiocentric to a geocentric approach a group of proficient managers will be selected
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1. (Chapter 2) What is the difference between a polycentric‚ ethnocentric‚ and geocentric approach to international management? What key factors should a firm consider before adopting one of these approaches? Polycentric approach to international management is the policy involved hiring and promoting employees who are citizens of the country that host and operates the company. The polycentric approach is best used in order to maintain low hiring costs. Communication is easier and companies run
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managers require broad perspective and international exposure. Polycentric is the policy involved hiring and promoting employees who are citizens of the host countries that the subsidiary is operated. This policy is best used when companies want to keep hiring cost low. Moreover‚ employees who are hired at subsidiary level would not have any problem adapting to the culture. Communication is smooth within the operation. Regiocentric staffing policy involves hiring and promoting employees based
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Dr. Howard V. Perlmutter is a world authority on globalisation and pioneer on the internationalisation of firms‚ cities and other institutions. Trained as a mechanical engineer and as a social psychologist‚ Perlmutter joined Wharton’s faculty in 1969. He specialised in the evolution of multinational corporations (MNCs) making predictions to how their viability and legitimacy would change. Perlmutter is the first academic who identified distinctive managerial orientations of international companies
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Good evening lady & Gentleman. I’m ________‚a HR manager ‚well today I will explain a HR concept. For the begin‚ we are a HR department. So we need to planning and finding the workforce that effective knowledge for our firm. So you have to understand what workforce happen. For example education‚ workforce lifestyle‚ and population structure. Also and then we need to plan about appropriate wage &welfare for attract the people to interested our firm and would like to be our company
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2. How would you describe the respective attitudes of Martin and Green: ethnocentric‚ polycentric‚ or geocentric? What factors do you suspect of having influenced their respective attitudes? Charles Martin has a geocentric attitude while James Green’s attitude is ethnocentric. While in college‚ Martin majored in African studies. Upon graduation‚ he served in the Peace Corps in Kenya. During this time‚ he became accustomed to business procedures in Africa. He really enjoyed working in Kenya
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media presents. The authors are discussing the concept of multiculturalism in variety of contexts and are giving examples of how manipulated the term multiculturalism is in the media‚ politics and science. In this paper we’ll be focusing on the Polycentric Multiculturalism which is the last part of the first chapter “From Eurocentrism to Pollycentrism” (Shostat & Stam1994: 46 - 49). The first chapter gives a summary of the crucial debates concerning Eurocentrism‚ racism‚ multiculturalism‚ postcolonial
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Term paper Title: “Pros and cons of polycentric staffing by Perlmutter (1968)” Scientific research and writing I Outline I. Outline 1 Introduction 1.1 Research problem 1.2 Research methodology 1.3 Way of investigation 2. Degrees of multinationality and how to measure them 1. General assumptions 2. The role of a manager in a multinational corporation 3 Global staffing 4. The EPRG concept 1. Ethnocentrism 2. Polycentrism
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Word Count = 2176 Executive Summary The purpose of this report is to explore the regiocentric approach to International Human Resource Management and discuss the impact the use of this approach would have in the case of expanding to a new location. The Expatriate Management Cycle is covered to identify any considerations that may have to be made during the process. The report evaluates the use of a regiocentric method for an international start-up situation. This report was written to inform the
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1. Why do individuals and organization have to become less ethnocentric and more polycentric when operating in an international context? Brewster‚ Sparrow and Vernon (2007) claim that there is a significant debate between those who believe that the world is getting more globalized and therefore all aspects of management‚ including HRM‚ are becoming more alike‚ and those who believe that each country continues to have its own approach to management in general and human resource management in particular
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