Global Human Resource Management

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An expatriate manager is a citizen of one country who is working abroad in one of the firm's subsidiaries.

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HRM professionals have a critically important strategic role.

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An organization's norms and value systems are known as its corporate culture.

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The most attractive staffing policy is the ethnocentric approach.

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A firm with an ethnocentric staffing policy will fill all key management positions with parent-country nationals.

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Cultural myopia refers to a firm's failure to understand host-country cultural differences that require different approaches to marketing and management.

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In the case of an ethnocentric approach,it is possible that managers may make decisions that are ethically suspect because they do not understand the culture in which they are managing.

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A firm following a polycentric approach to staffing believes that the host country lacks qualified individuals to manage subsidiaries.

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Firms may choose an ethnocentric approach to staffing as opposed to a polycentric approach because of the cost savings it promotes.

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A geocentric staffing policy seeks the best people for key jobs throughout the organization,regardless of nationality.

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A geocentric approach tends to weaken local responsiveness.

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Many firms adopt a geocentric policy toward staffing because it is a relatively inexpensive staffing policy.

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An ethnocentric approach is compatible with both global standardization and transnational strategies.

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A citizen of Japan who moves to the United States to work at Microsoft would be classified as an inpatriate.

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Expatriate failure refers to a manager's failure to understand host-country cultural norms and values,leading to ineffective work.

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A seminal study,R.L.Tung,revealed that for European firms,the top reason for expatriate failure was the inability of the manager to cope with larger overseas responsibilities.

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An executive who performs well in a domestic setting may not be able to adapt to managing in a different cultural setting.

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An expatriate needs to have language fluency to show willingness to communicate.

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The ability to understand why people of other countries behave the way they do is perceptual ability.

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Expatriate managers who have perceptual ability tend to treat foreign nationals as if they were home-country nationals.

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