IBUS 492 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Culture Shock
7 Dec 2018
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With the growth of international business, international assignment are becoming a challenge for more and more managers. Experience of employee**: the role of expatriate, staffing strategies. Ethnocentric: use of home country managers mainly (usa) Geocentric: use of mix of nationalities at home and abroad. Regiocentric: use of a mix of nationalities within a region. The size and the task complexity of its foreign affiliates. The cultural differences (culture distance) between the home country culture and the host country culture. To develop the organization for selecting employees for overseas assignment: managerial performance in the domestic settings. The staffing strategy of mncs affects the role that an employee is expected to fill while on the overseas assignment. To fill technical requirement very often the main reason: technical competence was and still is very often the primary decision criterion, the ability to adapt very important criterion by australian managers.
