contemporary media and is actually criticizing the subjectivity that the media presents. The authors are discussing the concept of multiculturalism in variety of contexts and are giving examples of how manipulated the term multiculturalism is in the media‚ politics and science. In this paper we’ll be focusing on the Polycentric Multiculturalism which is the last part of the first chapter “From Eurocentrism to Pollycentrism” (Shostat & Stam1994: 46 - 49). The first chapter gives a summary of the crucial
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1. Why do individuals and 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
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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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Term paper Title: “Pros and cons of polycentric staffing by Perlmutter (1968)” Scientific research and writing I Outline I. Outline 1 Introduction 1.1 Research problem 1.2 Research methodology 1.3 Way of investigation 2. Degrees of multinationality and how to measure them 1. General assumptions 2. The role of a manager in a multinational corporation 3 Global staffing 4. The EPRG concept 1. Ethnocentrism 2. Polycentrism
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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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having staffs from home country abroad is that employees may gain experiences worldwide in order to become higher level in management of their headquarters because international managers require broad perspective and international exposure. Polycentric is the policy involved hiring and promoting employees who are citizens of the host countries that the subsidiary is operated. This policy is best used when companies want to keep hiring cost low. Moreover‚ employees who are hired at subsidiary level
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the Laws of Supply and Demand The simulation in the text is about a small city by the name of Atlantis. Atlantis is a well-maintained city with many positive aspects for the community. All of the aspects make it a pleasant living environment. For example‚ the city has maintained streets‚ maintained sidewalks‚ large parks and jogging paths. To rent an apartment in the community of Atlantis an individual would have to go through Good life Management. The current vacancy rate is at 28 percent of availability
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Summarising articles for thesis: Example 1 Karim‚ Zaidi & Wahid (2004) studied the performance of zakat distribution in Perak‚ Kedah‚ Negeri Sembilan and Selangor. The objective of the study is to compare the trend in zakat distribution in the selected states. They used the financial report of 1990 to 2001 from the respective State Islamic Religious Councils to analyze the trend in zakat distribution. They found that‚ on average the respective SIRCS only distributed 69% to 80% of the amount of
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which is no less serious than narcomania or alcoholism. For instance‚ in August 2005‚ a report surfaced about the death of a 28-year-old southern Korean gamer who had spent 50 hours playing a real-time strategy game (BBC). For another significant example‚ one needs to look no further than July 2012‚ when a Taiwanese teenager fatally collapsed after a 40-hour game session (Crawley). Cases like these are actually quite numerous and happen all around the world. They make additional arguments to the negative
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Social Mobilization Theory - an interdisciplinary study within the social sciences that generally seeks to explain why social mobilization occurs‚ the forms underwhich it manifests‚ as well as potential social‚ cultural‚ and political consequences. The three current‚ leading theories explaining these phenomena include: Resource Mobilization- The assumption here is that for a social movement to first exist and then to thrive‚ it needs to operate similar to a business which makes efficient
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