Professional Documents
Culture Documents
Preeti Bhaskar
Symbiosis Centre for Management Studies
Noida
Approaches of staffing
Recruitment and Selection Procedures of
Expatriates
Expatriates Success and failure factors
Women Expatriate
Non expatriates their roles
Issues in staff selection
Challenging aspects
First, the initial cost of airfare, living expenses and
transportation in the host country.
The second expense incurred with bringing expatriates
in to the international operation is the training involved
in making sure the people going to the host country are
familiar with, laws, rules, culture, languages and
expectations in the new country.
Approaches to staffing
Ethnocentric policy
Polycentric policy
Geocentric policy
Regiocentric policy
Ethnocentric policy
Home countrys culture is to be imposed on subsidiaries
MNCs exports its HR Policy from Home country to foreign
location.
Strategic decisions are made at headquarters
Key positions in domestic and foreign operations are
hold by headquarters personnel
Polycentric
MNCs seeks to adapt to the local cultural needs of
subsidiaries
Each subsidiary is a distinct national entity with some
decision-making autonomy
Host-country nationals manage subsidiaries who are
seldom promoted to HQ positions
Parent company
positions
nationals
hold
key
headquarter
Advantages of Polycentric
It eliminate the high cost of relocating expatriate manager and
families.
Offer a great degree of autonomy in decision making to subsidiary
heads.
Host country nationals are less expensive than parent country used
and Training Host countrys nationals results in low cost
Better local knowledge
Reduce personal problems
Host country managers can protect a MNC from hostile treatment by host
Government.
Here subsidiary is allowed some autonomy but financial controls are kept.
Top people are limited to subsidiary and not for corporate position.
Geocentric
A global approach - worldwide integration
View that each part of the organization makes a unique
contribution
Nationality is ignored in favor of ability:
Best person for the job
Color of passport does not matter when it comes to rewards,
promotion and development.
Regiocentric
Reflects a regional strategy and structure;
Regional autonomy in decision making;
Staff move within the designated region, rather
than globally.
Nationals
Advantages
Disadvantages
PCN
HCN
TCN
Linkage between
Staffing and
growth /lifecycle
of MNC
Staffing
MNCs
Female
Expatriate
Managing
Expatriate
HCN, TCN, PCN
Technical Competency
Relational Skills
Ability to cope with variables and
Family Situation
Individual Criteria
Family Support
Expatriate
An expatriate is an employee who is
working and temporarily residing in a
foreign country.
Expatriate work as an agent between
two countries
Also known as
International Assignees
Selection techniques of
expatriates:
Interview structured interview
The
monitoring
and
targeting
of
disadvantaged group (staffing practices
are strongly influenced by norms and
values that are not covered by the law)
Psychological Testing- mentally fit for
international assignment
Assessment
centre
Competency
assessment
General Factors
Specific Attributes
JOB Competence
Relational Traits
Personality Traits
Environmental and
Family variables
Expatriate problem
Expatriate failure: premature return of the
expatriate manager to his/her home country
Family-friendly policies
Inter-company networking
Job-hunting assistance
Intra-company employment
On-assignment career support
Adaptability of women
expatriates:
Slow adjustment after first
year when the age group
is 30-35 and lower level
of satisfaction .
Faster adjustment after
third and forth year when
the age group is 25-30
and medium level of
satisfaction
Roles of Non-expatriates
People who travel internationally yet are not
considered expatriates as they do not relocate to
another country
Road warriors, globetrotters, frequent fliers
Female Expatriate
?
Host country
attitude
Capabilities
Barrier of
female
expatriate
Family
constraints
Sexual
harassment
Male dominant
society
Dual career
couples
Off- shoring
Trends
Recruiting
sources
Background
check
Global Staffing
Japan
China