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 is a staffing policy that is used in companies that has primarily international strategic orientation. This policy is generally adopted by headquarters by sending employees from the home or parent countries to the host country. This approach is used best in some situations such as‚ a team is sent from the home country to help setting up a new plant as well as train subsidiary personnel to use new system. The benefit of having staffs from home country abroad is that employees may gain
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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. Organizations have
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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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APPROACHES TO STRATEGIC HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT Strategy is a plan that is intended to achieve a particular purpose or objective‚ or pattern of consistent behavior over time. On the organizational level we can refer to a strategy as a fundamental way in which the organization does things. Strategic human resource management is therefore the approaches to making decisions on the intentions and plans of the organization through policies‚ plans and practices. These concern employee relations‚ employee
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BBPP1103 – Principles of Management Multiple-Choice Questions Samples Set 1 1. Someone who works with and through other people by coordinating their work activities in order to accomplish organizational goals is ___________. a) a very intelligent individual b) a supervisor of production work c) a manager d) an operations supervisor 2. Managers who are responsible for making organization-wide decisions and establishing the plans and goals that affect the entire organization
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Global Human Resource Management Chapter Outline Opening Case: Lenovo INTRODUCTION THE STRATEGIC ROLE OF INTERNATIONAL HRM STAFFING POLICY Types of Staffing Policy Expatriate Managers Management Focus: Managing Expatriates at Royal Dutch/Shell The Global Mind-Set TRAINING AND MANAGEMENT DEVELOPMENT Training for Expatriate Managers Repatriation of Expatriates Management Development and Strategy Management Focus: Monsanto’s
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Within the following essay‚ the three main Strategic approaches in Human Resource Management will be named and explained. Due to its complexity giving a detailed definition of HRM would significantly extend the report. Instead‚ a rather shallower one by D. Torrington‚ L. Hall and S. Taylor in the seventh edition of their Human Resource Management (2008): They state that “On the one hand it is used generically to describe the body of management activities” and continue that; “Used in this way HRM
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subsidiaries is shaped. In 1969 he bundled his insights by publishing the EPG model. Perlmutter’s EPG model states that senior management at an international organisation holds one of three primary orientations when building and expanding its multinational capabilities: 1. ETHOCENTRIC (home country orientation) The general attitude of a firm’s senior management team is that nationals from the organisation’s home country are more capable to drive international activities forward than non-native
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THE EVOLUTION OF HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT INTRODUCTION Human resource gained more attention as the workforce considered to be an important resource to gain competitive advantage of organization and also it helpful in utilizing the resources of an organization to an optimum extent in order to achieve organizational goal. Managing human resource is a complex process. As Harzing and Ruysseveldt said a better way to understand the philosophy of human resource management demands a thorough
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