Briefly discuss the three types of staffing policies in international business. Discuss the staffing policies adopted by MNCs (Multi-National Company) operating in Singapore. Which is the most attractive approach and why? The 3 types of staffing policies are ethnocentric‚ polycentric‚ and geocentric. Ethnocentric approach fills key management position with parent-country nationals. Advantage: * Overcome the lack of qualified manager in host country * Unify corporate culture. * Transfer
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Case Study #3: Contract for the International Sale of Goods A chip off the new block Semicontronics is an Australian manufacturing company that has been in the business of semi manufactured electronics for over a decade. Semicontronics has a solid reputation for meeting customer demands for quality products on time and on budget. The majority of Semicontronics customers are international‚ mid-market manufacturing companies that produce generic electronics such as cell phones‚ digital media
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Module specification INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS ENVIRONMENT Code: PGBM04 Credits: 15 Level: Masters FBL‚ Business School Board: Postgraduate Business Studies Learning Hours: 150 of which 30 CONTACT hours Rationale 1. The international business environment is multi-dimensional‚ including economic‚ political‚ socio-cultural and technological influences. While each can be viewed in specific national settings‚ increasingly they have become interrelated through processes of globalisation. In particular
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Tutorial 6 – Chapter 5 Cross-cultural Negotiation & Decision-making Tutorial activity 1: Ongoing Semester Case Study – Businessville Hotel. All over China and in Beijing in particular‚ plans were put in place to host the world’s biggest sporting event – the 2008 Olympic Games. Although the games are now over‚ other major sporting events are to be held in Beijing and the manager of the Beijing Businessville Hotel wants to attract the Swiss National Shooting team to stay in his hotel. He wants
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Cruises‚ i.e.‚ sea voyages for pleasure‚ offer passengers the convenience of an assigned cabin as they sail along a fixed itinerary that concludes at their original point of sea embarkation. Almost everything about the entire cruise industry is international‚ from the routes traveled to the use of flags of convenience to the locations of shipyards to the staffing of vessels. By far the largest cruise competitor is Carnival Corp.‚ which claims more than 40 percent of the global cruise market and owns
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1. Objective The Objective of this assignment is to distinguish the importance of political and economic risks in International Business faced by Malaysian Manufacturing firm which exporting to an ASEAN country. I had chosen Hard disk drive manufacturing firm in this study and the ASEAN country for us to export is Thailand. 2. Introduction of ASEAN country ASEAN(Association of Southeast Asian Nations)‚ was established on 8 August 1967 in Bangkok‚ Thailand‚ with the signing of the ASEAN
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Subsidies * A subsidy - a government payment to a domestic producer * Subsidies help domestic producers * compete against low-cost foreign imports * gain export markets * Consumers typically absorb the costs of subsidies Tariffs * Tariffs * increase government revenues * provide protection to domestic producers against foreign competitors by increasing the cost of imported foreign goods * force consumers to pay more for certain imports
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location can be utilized successfully to attract customers in a saturated market and against intensified competition. Customer loyalty leads to higher customer retention rate and to continuous business success even in situations where failure to satisfy customers would normally cause an early termination of business. Therefore the restaurant operation must focus not only on attracting first-time customers but also on developing long term relationship with customers. Customer loyalty allows increased price
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Kean talks about the attention gold rushes brings and how people were constantly being confused with iron pyrite. Kean mentions other elements such as tellurium‚ aluminum and europium and how they were used in currency. In the fourteenth chapter‚ related to chapter thirteen‚ Kean talks how money and science comes together since science was becoming more and more expensive‚ the ones who could make the big discoveries were the ones who had money. Kean brings up Johann Wolfgang von Goethe‚ a writer who
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develop skills with which they will be able to demonstrate: • The ability to keep ‘up to date’ on legislative and regulatory matters and changes‚ and determine their effects on business performance‚ management planning and decision making Task Overview: “There is one and only one social responsibility of business – to use its resources and engage in activities designed to increase its profit so long as it stays within the rules of the game….” (Milton Friedman‚ 1970) a. From an accounting
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