• training (to improve job skills) • development (to educate people beyond the requirements of their present position) • performance appraisal • remuneration and rewards • transfers • separations. In an international business‚ the way in which these steps are administered depends very much on the firm’s strategy and the staffing policy chosen to support that strategy. There are four choices in policy: the ethnocentric approach‚ the poly-centric approach‚ the geocentric
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Ethnocentrism is the propensity to look at the world from the standpoint of one’s own culture. Many claim that ethnocentrism occurs in every culture; as luck would have it‚ ethnocentrism may be something that all cultures have in common. (unknown) Ethnocentrism is a good thing and a bad thing. It’s great to be proud of your country and your heritage. Ethnocentrism can lead to social assimilation and strong personal group ties. We see a lot of ethnocentrism in the military and in our High Schools
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Ethnocentrism: Ethnocentrism is judging another culture solely by the values of ones own culture .The ethnocentric individual will judge other groups related to his particular ethnic group or culture especially with concern to language‚ behavior‚ customs‚ and religion .Ethnocentric individuals believe that they are better than other individuals for reasons based solely on their heritage .Ethnocentrism can be defined as making false assumptions about others ways based
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public all over the globe. No doubt‚ the Western perception of dogs and pets as companions and deserving of animal rights justifies their protest and condemnation of the Yulin Dog Meat Festival. However‚ that is also reflective of the heart of ethnocentrism‚ because people outside the cultural boundaries of China are passing judgements about the Yulin Dog Meat Festival by using their own culture as the basis of comparison. Critiques of the festival have their
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#1 In a shocking opening scene‚ teen Danny Vinyard who is played by Edward Furlong‚ races to tell his older brother‚ neo-Nazi Derek‚ about the young blacks breaking into his car in front of the house‚ whereupon Derek gets his gun and with no forethought shoots the youths in their tracks and he forces the other man to put his mouth on the curb‚ then brutally kills him by stomping on the back of his head‚ crushing his mouth against the curb. Danny watches in horror as this unfolds. The police arrest
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William Sumner said it best when he described ethnocentrism as “the technical name for this view of things in which one’s own group is the center of everything‚ and all others are scaled and rated with reference to it” (Sumner‚ 1906).Now‚ ethnocentric thinking is born‚ in the most basic form‚ from the belief in a useful quality in every person’s culture. This useful quality‚ or virtue as this paper will refer to it‚ can be one or many and about any area of society. When one identifies with this virtue
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for Jim issues. Medical Precision Systems (from now on MPS) have a HR strategy with the intentions of gaining strong control over its subsidiaries through the extensive use of expatriate managers in both technical and managerial areas of the business. Expatriate managers have been told to try to keep the unions out or to ensure that they have a minimal influence. The main issue with MPS IHR strategy is that they are using an ethnocentric approach where they export their HR strategy to foreign
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1.0 Study Case Summary Office Equipment Company (OEC) manufactures a wide variety of office equipments such as copying machines‚ recording machines‚ mail scales and paper shredders in eight different countries and distributes and sells products worldwide. It has no manufacturing facilities in Peru but has been selling and servicing there since the early 1970s. OEC first tried selling in Peru through independent importers but quickly became convinced that in order to make sufficient sales it
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Four approaches to international staffing‚ advantages and disadvantages. The globalisation of the world’s business economy has been particularly significant‚ resulting in an increase in the importance of‚ and interest in‚ international human resourcing. The international company is a type of multi-unit business organisation‚ which has a corporate centre in its home and its business units located in various host countries. International HRM distinguishes itself from domestic HRM primarily by having
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31. Differentiate between Brainstorming and Reverse Brain-storming. Reverse brainstorming helps you solve problems by: combining brainstorming and reversal techniques. By combining these‚ you can extend your use of brainstorming to draw out even more creative ideas. To use this technique‚ you start with one of two "reverse" questions: Instead of asking‚ "How do I solve or prevent this problem?" ask‚ "How could I possibly cause the problem?" Instead of asking "How do I achieve these results?" ask
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