ETHNOCENTRIC MANAGEMENT ORIENTATION Management holding an ethnocentric orientation believes that its home country is superior to any other country in the world regardless of any evidence to the contrary. An ethnocentrically oriented manager may think: “since a product or a service performed well at home‚ it should also perform well abroad. Since this is so obvious‚ no further research is necessary on foreign markets and no adaptations need to be made to the products or services to tailor them to
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strategy. There are four choices in policy: the ethnocentric approach‚ the poly-centric approach‚ the geocentric approach and the regiocentric approach. What follows is a shorthand description based on Dowling and Welch (2004) of the four using the same criteria for each approach. You should use these descriptions as the ’skeleton’ of your understanding of the four approaches and use the reading from Hill (2005) to provide the ’flesh’. |Ethnocentric approach |
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at Coca-Cola 8/16/2013 1. What is Coca-Cola’s staffing policy for managerial position: ethnocentric‚ polycentric‚ or geocentric? Does this policy make sense? I believe Coca-Cola’s staffing policy for managerial positioning is primarily polycentric; however‚ I also believe it involves many characteristics of both ethnocentric and geocentric staffing policies as well. According to Dowling‚ et al‚ a polycentric staffing approach involves the multinational enterprise treating each subsidiary as a distinct
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_______________ of its $2.5 billion in annual revenues are outside of the United States. A. 25 percent B. 45 percent C. 65 percent D. 75 percent E. 85 percent 2. Molex‚ according to the opening case‚ can be best described as having a A. geocentric policy. B. polycentric policy. C. multidomestic policy. D. global policy. E. transnational policy 3. The activities an organization carries out to utilize its ____________ effectively is referred to as human resource management. A. customers B. external stakeholders
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international companies/local companies * ethnocentric (home-country oriented) An ethnocentric firm views the business from the perspective and values of the home country. Policies and practices are likely to be designed by home-country nationals with little or no variation for international operations. Ethnocentric oriented international companies believe that anything worked at home must also work abroad. For example: Nissan using ethnocentric orientation during its first few years of exporting
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Gamescorp in China ENU Wei Bingxue Content 1.0 Cultural differences between China and British 3 2.0 Significance of different culture on HRM approach 6 3.0 Orientation of the organization 7 4.0 Practices and polices for the recruitment and selection 9 5.0 Conclusion 11 References
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staff in foreign subsidiaries. Heenan and Perlmutter identified approaches to manage foreign subsidiaries which are‚ ethnocentric‚ polycentric‚ geocentric and regiocentric. In this part we will examine the connection between this approaches and staffing practices as well as the advantages and disadvantages of this differents approaches. The first approach is called ethnocentric. Employees from headquarters base it on the occupation of a key position. It is assumed that expatriates can manage subsidiaries
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International Business‚ 14e (Daniels et al.) Chapter 20 International Human Resources 1) Why is management of international human resources more difficult than directing human resources at the domestic level? A) the complications that arise from political‚ cultural‚ legal‚ and economic differences between countries B) the challenge posed by managers in other countries that aim to achieve global objectives for the company no matter the costs imposed on national objectives C) the greater similarity
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others.The ethnocentric attitude is found in many companies that have many nationalities and culture groups working together. It is a natural tendency for people to act ethnocentrically because it is what they feel comfortable with.IT is based on past experiences and learned behaviors and norms. The ethnocentric attitude is seen often when home nationals of various countries believe they are superior to‚ more trustworthy and more reliable than their foreign counterparts. Ethnocentric attitudes are
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Essay «International business strategies and HRM strategies» Made by: Saint-Petersburg 2012 Table of Contents Introduction 3 International Business Strategies 5 Human Resource Management Strategies 8 Conclusion 10 References 11 Introduction Internationalization today is one of the crucial strategies of many companies throughout the world. During the process of going global companies are trying to extend their business on the overseas markets by searching new customers‚ acquiring
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