PSYC 290 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Newly Industrialized Country, Ethnocentrism, Regional Policy Of The European Union
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Chapter 16 international human resource management: explain the three different staffing policies ethnocentric, polycentric, and geocentric that are used by international companies. (textbook, pp. 408 410: ethnocentric staffing: individuals from the home country manage operations abroad. This policy tends to appeal to companies that want to maintain tight control over decision making in branch offices abroad: polycentric staffing: individuals from the host country manage operations abroad. Companies can implement a polycentric approach for top and mid-level managers, for lower-level staff, or for non-managerial workers. It is well suited to companies who want to give national units a degree of autonomy in decision making: geocentric staffing: the best-qualified individuals, regardless of nationality, manage operations abroad. The local operation may choose managers from the host country, from the home (cid:272)ou(cid:374)tr(cid:455), or fro(cid:373) a third (cid:272)ou(cid:374)tr(cid:455). The (cid:272)hoi(cid:272)e depe(cid:374)ds o(cid:374) the operatio(cid:374)"s spe(cid:272)ifi(cid:272) (cid:374)eeds.