MHR 523 Lecture Notes - Collective Bargaining, Balance Sheet, Macromedia Homesite
1 May 2012
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Chapter 17 global hr issues: expatriates are sent to work in another country, locals, host or on-site, third country nationals, home-country. Employees who are citizens of the country where the parent company is based, and. Citizens of a country other than the host or parent country home office, or home-site employees are those who work where the parent company is based. Investment in human capital i. e. training: high labor costs lead to increased focus on efficiencies and increasing employee performance, labour cost factors & industrial relations factors. Family support matter to be addressed before the family is moved abroad. Explain how to improve global assignments through employee selection: selecting global managers for expatriate assignments means screening them for traits that predict success in adapting to what may be dramatically new environments. All key management: polycentric: only host-country managers can understand the culture of the host-country positions are filled by parent-country nationals market.
