media presents. The authors are discussing the concept of multiculturalism in variety of contexts and are giving examples of how manipulated the term multiculturalism is in the media‚ politics and science. In this paper we’ll be focusing on the Polycentric Multiculturalism which is the last part of the first chapter “From Eurocentrism to Pollycentrism” (Shostat & Stam1994: 46 - 49). The first chapter gives a summary of the crucial debates concerning Eurocentrism‚ racism‚ multiculturalism‚ postcolonial
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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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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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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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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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having staffs from home country abroad is that employees may gain experiences worldwide in order to become higher level in management of their headquarters because international managers require broad perspective and international exposure. Polycentric is the policy involved hiring and promoting employees who are citizens of the host countries that the subsidiary is operated. This policy is best used when companies want to keep hiring cost low. Moreover‚ employees who are hired at subsidiary level
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Benefits appropriated by various actors differ at an individual and/ or stakeholder grouping level therefore it is important to find a way to ensure effective and efficient governance taking into account the possible difference in benefits drawn. Polycentric governance as a scheme of benefit sharing Polycentricism is characterised by governance systems in which political authority is dispersed to separately constituted bodies with overlapping jurisdictions that do not stand in hierarchical relationship
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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) 3. What does PCN stand for? a. personnel coordinating networks b. personnel certifying networks c. parent-country nationals (moderate‚ page 391) d. projected certified needs 4. When
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book by Ball‚ et al. (2008)‚ it was explained these four approaches in detail‚ they are Ethnocentric approach‚ Polycentric approach‚ Geocentric approach and Regiocentric Approach. Ethnocentric approach is related to the company employing and promoting the Parent-country nationals (PCNs) in their subsidiaries which the employee are the citizen of the nation in the parent company; Polycentric approach is related to employing and promoting the Host-country nationals (HCNs) in their subsidiaries which
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multinational companies is a complex issue to the international human resource management (IHRM). With this stated‚ the statement‚ “Culture is a major variable for international management” is true in every sense. Keywords: expatriate‚ ethnocentric‚ polycentric‚ regiocentric‚ geocentric Introduction Culture generally refers to patterns of human activity and the symbolic structures that give such activity significance. Different definitions of “culture” reflect different theoretical orientations for
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