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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Ethnocentric staffing approach Word number:973 Executive summary In today’s global world Human Resource (HR) practices and polices have become very significant for further development of multinationals organizations. In order for multinationals companies to be competitive‚ it is necessary to have adequate international staffing approach. Management of employees in foreign subsidiary is a complex job. Nevertheless‚ Human Resource managers need to manage people across
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country: Parent Country Nationals(PNC) Ethnocentric Approach Host Country Nationals(HCN) Polycentric Approach Third Country Nationals(TCN) Re-Geocentric & Geocentric The Ethnocentric Staffing Policy: Few foreign subsidiaries have an autonomy and strategic decisions are made at the headquarters. Key positions in domestic and foreign operations are held by headquarters personnel. Subsidiaries are managed by staff from the home country. The ethnocentric staffing policy refers to the strategy of a multinational
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Katrin Mössler The Pros and Cons of International Staffing April 2003 The ethnocentric staffing policy refers to the strategy of a multinational company to employ managers for key positions from the parent headquarters instead of employing local staff ("Global Human Resource Management"). Many organizations have traditionally relied on parent country nationals (PCNs) for staffing top management positions abroad for a number of reasons ("Global Human Resource Management"): 1. The expatriate’s
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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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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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Week 9 DQ 2. Describe your staffing approach (ethnocentric‚ polycentric‚ or geocentric) and why you are choosing this approach. In doing business in a Japan‚ the polycentric staffing approach would work best. In this approach Host country nationals occupy positions in the foreign subsidiary. Some transfers of HCNs to headquarters also take place. The approach eliminates the language barriers‚ and typically HCNs are less expensive. This policy is best used when companies want to keep hiring
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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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Historically speaking most theories of counseling are based on Western assumptions. Research has shown that for non-White clients the monocultural ethnocentric approach is not effective. For example‚ Sue & Sue (2013) believe that because most therapist are trained to use the Western approach they lack expertise in working with culturally diverse clients. Also many of these counseling theories do not work for culturally diverse clients because they go against their beliefs and values. Therefore‚
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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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