International Hrm Flashcards
Selection of overseas managers types
Home-country nationals
Host-country nationals
Third-country nationals
Inpatriates
What is a home-country nationals
Expatriates
Citizens of the country where the MNC is headquartered
What is Host-country nationals
Local managers hired by MNC
What is Third-country nationals?
Managers who are citizens of countries other than where the MNC is headquartered of the one they are assigned to work in
What are Inpatriates?
Individuals from a host country of third-country who are assigned to work in the home country
Types of MNCs
Perlmutter 1969
Ethnocentric organisations
Polycentric organisations
Geocentric organisations
What do ethnocentric organisations do?
Majority of managers recruited from home or parent country
Polycentric
Local nationals are appointed
Geocentric organisations
Managers are not appointed according to their country of origin