Chapter 10 Flashcards
home country
country where the organization’s headquarters are located
host country
- a country (other than home country) where the org. operates a facility
- host-country nationals: employees who are citizens of the host country
third country
- country that is neither the home or host country
- assistant from another country
expatriates
employees who take assignments in other countries
domestic organization
- idea for serving local, regional, and national market
- corporate headquarters
International organizations
- exporting domestically produced items to other countries to be sold there
- setting up operations in one or more additional countries
multinational companies
- expand on a broader scale
- move production facilities from high-cost locations to low-cost locations
global organizations
- highest level of involvement in the marketplace
- offering top products to segments of the market while keeping costs as low as possible
transnational HRM system
- decision making from a global perspective (variety of cultures)
- outcomes of THRM balance uniformity with flexibility
culture
a community’s set of shared assumptions about how the world works and what ideals are worth striving for
individualism/collectivism
- strength of the relation between an individual and other individuals in the society
- HIGH I: (Canada/USA/Netherlands) people tend to think and act as individuals rather than as a group, self-reliant
- HIGH C: (Columbia/Pakistan) think of themselves as members of a group and devote themselves to interests of others
power distance
- the way cultures deal with unequal distribution of power and define the amount of inequality that is normal
- HIGH: (India) normal for large differences
- LOW: (Denmark) eliminate inequalities
uncertainty avoidance
- how cultures handle the fact that the future is unpredictable
- HIGH: (Greece/Portugal) rely on lay, religion, technology
-LOW: (Jamacia/Singapore) take each day as it coms
masculinity/feminity
- M: a culture that values achievement, money making, assertiveness, and competition (Germany/Japan)
- F: culture places high value on relationships, service, care for others (Norway/Sweden)
long-term / short-term orientation
- LT: value saving and persistence (Asia)
- ST: promote respect for past tradition and social obligations in the present (Canada/USA)
indulgence / restraint
- how a culture controls the desire to pursue enjoyment and fun
- I: freedom, pleasure, leisure (Can/Mexico/USA)
- R: control the impulse to gratify personal needs, strict social norms (Russia/China)
t/f - canada suffers from a shortage of skilled workers in many occupations, and this problem is expected to increase
true
t/f - in countries with lower levels of educational attainment, companies with limit their activities to high-skill, low-wage jobs
false
- companies will limit their activities to LOW-SKILL and LOW-wage jobs
political-legal system
government, laws and regulations
economic system
- education is free to students
- socialist systems take a higher percentage of each workers income as it increases
- capitalist systems ted to let workers keep more of their earnings
as organizations consider decisions about their level of international activity, HR professionals should provide information about the relevant HR issues such as:
local market pay rates and labour laws
how do organizations achieve an understanding of the region’s business and social culture?
by hiring host-country nationals to fill foreign positions
At organizations where temporary workers are needed and no Canadian citizens are available to perform the job, companies hire with ____ or ____.
- Mobility Program
- Temporary Foreign Worker Program (TFWP) – 10-30%
digital nomad (global nomad)
remote worker who uses technology to work from coffee shops, hotels, co-working spaces or libraries
