Chapter 9 – Staffing and Training for Global Operations Multiple Choice Questions 1. Ideally‚ the ____________ should dictate the organizational structure and staffing needed by a firm. a. clients served b. size of the firm c. strategy of the firm (moderate‚ page 390) d. management philosophy of the firm 2. Firms using the ____________ approach to staffing fill key managerial positions with persons from headquarters. a. polycentric b. regiocentric c. global d. ethnocentric (moderate‚ page 391)
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Social network service has just started about 10 years ago and many types of SNS rapidly spread to all over the world. For example‚ surprisingly‚ facebook was started accidentally by one drunken university student. However‚ once it started‚ almost all students in his university enjoyed this site and made their own account within a week and now facebook is used by people in the whole world. This rapid-surging popularity means the convenience and the usefulness of SNS really fascinate most of people
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In this essay I will be analysing three different companies and how the five retail policies affect their targeting market. The retail policies are; Pricing - The Federal Trade Commission‚ Opening hours – Business Trading Hours Law‚ Visual merchandising displays - Service level ‚ Use of internet and other media. Debenhams (opening hours): this company has to stores that close at different hours in different county. For example: the shop that is located in basil don has to be closed before 6pm
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Disadvantages 1. Loss of Freedom of choice - Citizens no longer have the choice to choose who governs them. They cannot vote in elections as it is all decided for them. 2. The Government will have absolute power. The government may not think in the best interests of the people. They may be more interested in building large lavish palaces for themselves than feeding their people. 3. The people may be oppressed by the regime as the government would be intent on keeping their power away from the
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Draft April 5‚2014 Teacher’s Salaries Based on Their Performance in Class The idea of merit pay originated in the year 1950 (Turner‚ 2010). Other industries are often using performance based pay in order to reward their employees‚ and one field that uses these methods is professional athletes. There are very few fields where employees can work “as they wish” (Solmon & Podgursky‚ 2000). Originally‚ using merit pay in the teaching field failed due to the lack of buy-ins from districts and also due
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and limitations of Piecework plan and Merit Pay | Pg 3 – Pg 10 | 2 | Identify and explain 5 reasons as to why incentive plans fail | Pg 11 – Pg 13 | 3 | How are you going to implement the incentive plans? | Pg 14 – Pg 15 | Question 1 It was Frederick Taylor who advances the arguments for adopting financial incentives as a motivation tool. Critically examine the usefulness and limitations of the two following incentive plans: a) Piecework plans b) Merit Pay a) Piecework plans Under the straight
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I wrote just English is that English is the most international language in the world and people speaks it all over the world. But the more languages you know the better it gets for you. The main benefits of learning more languages is that you will find it more easier to communicate with people from other countries‚ your business life would go a lot better and you will probably also have more contacts. But of course there are also drawbacks to this. Some of the most common disadvantages are
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Is the Internet a sea of information or a source of human catastrophe or a forum for democracy or a source of rumors? President Lee Myung-bak‚ speaking at the June 17 ministerial meeting of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development which discussed the future of the Internet economy‚ said that the Internet without trust can be “a poison instead of medicine.” He expressed concerns about spam mails hiding under anonymity and the spread of lies and incorrect information that threaten
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During the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries‚ the economic theory utilized by Great Britain towards its empire was known as mercantilism. The idea behind mercantilism was to amass wealth through a favorable balance of trade‚ or exporting more goods than were imported. Within the idea of mercantilism‚ the colonies were meant to be a source of raw materials and a market for manufactured products. Even though the mercantile theory seemed to prosper between England and the colonies‚ the underlying
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