HR - Global Context Flashcards
Method by which an organization relocates its processes or production to an international location through subsidiaries or third-party affiliates.
Offshoring
Organizations that own or control production or service facilities in one or more countries other than the home country.
Multinational enterprises (MNEs)
Practice of contracting a part of business processes or production to an external company in a country that is relatively close (e.g., within the same own region).
Near-shoring
Extent to which diversity is embraced in management of people, products/services, and branding.
Identity alignment
Status of growing interconnectedness and interdependency among countries, people, markets, and organizations worldwide.
Globalization
Process by which employees returning from international assignments reintegrate into their home country’s culture, conditions, and employment.
Repatriation
Process by which an organization moves an employee out of an international assignment; can involve moving back to the home country, moving to a different global location, or moving to a new location or position in the current host country.
Redeployment
Extent to which underlying operations such as IT, finance, or HR integrate across locations.
Process alignment
Globalization strategy that emphasizes adapting to the needs of local markets and allows subsidiaries to develop unique products, structures, and systems.
Local responsiveness (LR)
Relocation of business processes or production to a lower-cost location inside the same country as the business.
Onshoring
Process by which an organization contracts with third-party vendors to provide selected services/activities instead of hiring new employees.
Outsourcing
Globalization strategy that emphasizes consistency of approach, standardization of processes, and a common corporate culture across global operations.
Global integration (GI)
Employees who work outside their home countries.
Assignees
Innovations created for or by emerging-economy markets and then imported to developed-economy markets.
Reverse innovation
Legal system in which each case is considered in terms of how it relates to legal decisions that have already been made; evolves through judicial decisions over time.
Common law
Right of a legal body to exert authority over a given geographical territory, subject matter, or persons or institutions.
Jurisdiction
Ability to take an international perspective, inclusive of other cultures’ views.
Global mindset
Concept that laws are enforced only through accepted, codified procedures.
Due process
Legal system based on written codes (laws, rules, or regulations).
Civil law
Societies in which relationships have less history; individuals know each other less well and don’t share a common database of experience, so communication must be very explicit.
Low-context cultures
Societies or groups characterized by complex, usually long-standing networks of relationships; members share a rich history of common experience, so the way they interact and interpret events is often not apparent to outsiders.
High-context cultures
Capacity to recognize, interpret, and behaviorally adapt to multicultural situations and contexts.
Cultural intelligence
Concept that stipulates that no individual is beyond the reach of the law and that authority is exercised only in accordance with written and publicly disclosed laws.
Rule of law
Extension of the power of a country’s laws over its citizens outside that country’s sovereign national boundaries.
Extraterritoriality
Basic beliefs, attitudes, values, behaviors, and customs shared and followed by members of a group, which give rise to the group’s sense of identity.
Culture
