ETHNOCENTRIC MANAGEMENT ORIENTATION Management holding an ethnocentric orientation believes that its home country is superior to any other country in the world regardless of any evidence to the contrary. An ethnocentrically oriented manager may think: “since a product or a service performed well at home‚ it should also perform well abroad. Since this is so obvious‚ no further research is necessary on foreign markets and no adaptations need to be made to the products or services to tailor them to
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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 parent-country nationals’ core competency to host-country operation. Polycentric approach requires host-country nationals to manage subsidiaries and parent-country nationals
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"Managing Across Cultures". Florida‚ the United States. [Internet]. Available at <www.bus.ucf.edu/lmigenes/internmgmt/NEW%20chpt%205.ppt>. Access Date [ 15th October‚ 2007]. Dictionary.Com‚ 2005. "Polycentric". [Internet]. Lexico Publishing Group‚ LLC. Available at <http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=polycentric>. Access Date [23rd November‚ 2005]. Ethics Quality. 2004A. "Culture Management". [Internet]. United States. Ethics Quality for Organizational Excellence. 2004. Available at <http://www.ethicsquality
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procurement‚ and the marketing mix. Whether a company chooses to standardize or adapt its operations depends on its attitudes toward different cultures. These attitudes are defined by three orientations toward foreign culture: ethnocentric‚ polycentric‚ and geocentric. Ethnocentric Model Ethnocentrism has a socio-psychological dynamic that is broadly used to describe human behavior in and between contradistinctive cultures. The roots of ethnocentrism stem from a sociological construct explaining “majority”
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Gamescorp in China ENU Wei Bingxue Content 1.0 Cultural differences between China and British 3 2.0 Significance of different culture on HRM approach 6 3.0 Orientation of the organization 7 4.0 Practices and polices for the recruitment and selection 9 5.0 Conclusion 11 References
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‘Globalization’ is a simple word which has achieved great success. “Globalization of markets” (Levitt 1983) is an expression which related first to demand: taste‚ preferences and price-mindedness are becoming increasingly universal. Second‚ it relates to the supply side; products and services tend to become more standardized and competition within industries reaches a world-wide scale. Third‚ it relates to the way firms‚ mainly multinational companies‚ try to design their marketing policies and
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a. Ethnocentric b. Polycentric c. Regiocentric d. Geocentric 55. Individuals from the home country manage operations outside the home country in which kind of staffing? a. Ethnocentric b. Polycentric c. Regiocentric d. Geocentric 56. Which of the following statements is false? a. Ethnocentric staffing appeals to companies that want to maintain tight control over decision making in branch offices abroad. b. Ethnocentric companies
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for the position. Depending upon the firm’s HR philosophy‚ different candidates could be viewed as the best choice. The best candidate from an ethnocentric point of view is either Tom Wallace or Brett Harrison. Wallace has the edge over Harrison due to his longer tenure with TCT and relevant experience with a similar operation in the U.S. From a polycentric approach‚ Saumitra Chakraborty would be the best selection. Although young‚ he is well connected with the local business community and would
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strategy. There are four choices in policy: the ethnocentric approach‚ the poly-centric approach‚ the geocentric approach and the regiocentric approach. What follows is a shorthand description based on Dowling and Welch (2004) of the four using the same criteria for each approach. You should use these descriptions as the ’skeleton’ of your understanding of the four approaches and use the reading from Hill (2005) to provide the ’flesh’. |Ethnocentric approach |
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leverage‚ corporate culture‚ and the continuing presence of national controls that create trade barriers. 3. Describe the difference between ethnocentric‚ polycentric‚ regiocentric‚ and geocentric management orientations. The premise of an ethnocentric orientation is that home country products and management processes are superior. An ethnocentric company that neither sources inputs from‚ nor seeks market opportunities in the world outside the home country may be classified as an international
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