The polycentric approach recruit host country nationals to manage subsidiaries in their own. country, and parent country nationals for positions at headquarters[r]
(1)International Business
9e
By Charles W.L Hill
(2)Chapter 19
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What Is Human
Resource Management?
Human resource management (HRM) - the
activities an organization carries out to utilize its human resources effectively
more complex in an international business
These activities include determining human
resource strategy, staffing, performance evaluation, management development, compensation, labor relations
expatriate managers
Firms need to ensure there is a fit between their
(4)What Is The Strategic Role Of HRM In International Firms?
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What Is A Staffing Policy?
Staffing policy - the selection of employees
who have the skills required to perform a particular job
Three main approaches to staffing policy
1 The ethnocentric approach - fill key management positions with parent-country nationals
2 The polycentric approach recruit host country nationals to manage subsidiaries in their own
country, and parent country nationals for positions at headquarters
(6)Which Staffing Policy Is Best?
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What Is Expatriate Failure?
Firms using an ethnocentric or geocentric
staffing strategy will have expatriate managers
expatriate failure is the premature return of an
expatriate manager to the home country
The main reasons for Japanese expatriate
failure are
the inability to cope with larger overseas responsibility difficulties with the new environment