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Terms Flashcards

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HCT Host Country National

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employee who is a citizen of the country he works at

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Parent Country National

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EE who works at a country other than his own. Expat

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Independent Variable

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What you change in order to conduct your experiment. Ex: give training to a group

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Dependent variable

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What changes: their productivity

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Control Group

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The group that gets the placebo, the one you leave alone

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Incubator

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Open, High Tech, US, UK, Canada, No chain of Command, Encourage people to be creative and collaborative

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Guided Missile

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Silo, Nasa, task oriented different groups each have a task.

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Eiffel Tower

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Bureaucratic, central command, low skill

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Family

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Face to Face, relationship oriented

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Single Focus

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can work on one thing at a time, no deviation. Germany

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Multi Focus

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The plan can change as we go along. Italy, Spain

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High Context

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Implicit. There’s a lot more to what I say verbally. Collective. China. Relationship oriented. Tone of the message. Japan, France, Spain, Brazil

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Low Context

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Explicit. I mean what I say. UK, Australia, US

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Trompenaars

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Universalism/Particularism, Neutral/Affective,
Achievement/Ascription,
Specific/Diffuse

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Universalism/particularism

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Universalism - one law for everyone. Contract, standard. US

Particularism - Contract can change according to circumstances. China

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Neutral/Affective

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Neutral - Low key, don’t display emotions (Japan)

Affective - Relations, warm. Mexico, Russia

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Achievement/Ascription

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Achievement - I got what I got because of my achievement. US

Ascriptive - I am where I am because of where I was born, who I know, what caste I belong to. India.

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Specific/Diffuse

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Specific - Work and Personal lives are separate. US, UK, Germany.
Diffuse - relationships are fused between work and personal. Argentina, Spain, Russia

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Hofstede (four dimensions)

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Power Distance
Uncertainty Avoidance
Individual/Collectivism
Femininity/Masculinity

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Laws app outside the US

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Title VII, ADA, ADEA. US ee working for a US company outside the US can bring suit in US.

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Four T Framework (to develop Global mindset)

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Travel
Team Work
Training
Transfer
\+ Mentoring and Coaching
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Retirement

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US - Social Sec, EE and ER put in $
UK - State Pension Act (ER)
Canada - State Sponsored
India - Provident Fund (ee and ER 12% - all belongs to EE) Largest in the world
China - State sponsored
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Totalizaton

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Social security related

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Three R of leadership

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Recognize
Respect
Reconcile

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Outsourcing

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One specific task - payroll, security, IT

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Offshoring/Nearshoring

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Offshoring - sending to another country

Nearshoring - sending to a border country

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Orientation

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Short time

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Onboarding

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Can take months, years

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Ascriptive

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India. I am ascribing to you your status based on your race, sex, caste, etc.

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Acculturation

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Exchange of cultural features. Groups remain distinct

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Acquired Rights Directive

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Safeguards the rights of European workers
Same terms and conditions
Can’t fire UNLESS: economic, technical, or organizational reason entailing change in the workforce

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Alien Corporation

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A company that is incorporated under the laws of another country

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APEC

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Asia-Pacific economic cooperation

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Assessment center

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Not a place!

Used to determine managerial potential of an employee

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Assignment letter

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Describes terms and conditions, length of assignment, components of compensation, vacation and home leave

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Balance sheet approach

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Assignee retains same standard of living. 
Base salary is made up of: 
Housing, 
income taxes, 
goods and services, 
reserves (pension, savings, investments)
Uses cost of living index
37
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Build up

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Same as balance sheet approach

38
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Danger Pay

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Paid in addition to hardship premium

Civil war, revolution, terrorism

39
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Decline stage

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Profits and sales are falling 
Wages decline, training budgets slash, 
Layoffs
Hiring freeze
Top employees seek employment elsewhere
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Delphi technique

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Different viewpoints of experts are presented

Final product is blended version of the others

41
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Destination services

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Assistance to assignees

42
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EPI

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Effective purchaser Index
Buying generic
Cost of living index, less generous than the standard

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Equalization

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An expatriate will not be negatively or positively impacted

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Egocentrism

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Your own culture is superior

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Ethnocentrism

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Your ethnicity is superior

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Euro pay

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Trend to pay employees the same throughout Europe

47
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Foreign Services Premium

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Same as mobility premium

Paid monthly, tax free, over and above salary

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Geocentric corporation

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Height of globalization- headquarters employees can come from anywhere on the globe

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Global corporation

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An org which has operations across geographies

One country’s operations affect other areas

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Global regions structure

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Make allowances for certain regions

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Globalist

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The height, international employee, sr level, works in any country

52
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Go Native

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The employees is totally immersed in their host country’s culture

53
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Growth stage

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Profits and sales are growing steadily, hiring is up
Training budget increases
Pay higher salaries

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Hardship allowance

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A percentage of base salary addiction, assignment involves harsh conditions

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HQ based balance Sheet approach

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Assignee is paid according to HQ pay. Any differences are calculated compared to the HQ pay

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Home based balance sheet approach

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Assignee is paid according to home country compensation

Any differences are made in comparison with home pay

57
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Hypothetical tax

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What the ee would have paid had they stayed in their home country

58
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Inpatriate

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Alien employees brought in to work in headquarters location

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ILO

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A UN agency
International labor organization
Promote social justice, workers, human rights

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Job specification

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Detailed statement of skills knowledge and abilities

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Kaizen

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Japanese for “continuous improvement”

62
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Multi domestic corporation

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Control is decentralized

Decision making is on local level

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Global vs multi domestic

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Global is centralized decision making

Unified performance goals

64
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Multinational corporation

Multi national enterprise

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Operates in many countries

65
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Nearshoring

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Moving business to a bordering state/nation

66
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Nominal group technique

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All ideas are considered by all members and formal evaluation is done

67
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Offshoring

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Moving business to another country

India, China, Philippines

68
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OECD

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Organization for economic cooperation and development

Countries that share principles of market economy, democracy and human rights

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Outsourcing

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Having a vendor do something that the corporation used to do in-house

70
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Particularism

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Right or wrong is based on changing circumstances

Ie Chinese and contracts: a starting point

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Polycentrism

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Org leaders come from either HQ employees or local employees

72
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Provident fund

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Compulsory pension program
Workers must contribute to their retirement fund
India is the largest

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Regio centric

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Each regional area is self governed

74
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Split pay

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Paying the ee what they need in local currency and the rest in home currency

75
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Tax equalization

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Tax reimbursement system
Expat neither loses or gained
Hypotax is deducted, if there is more to pay- the company pays it

76
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Tax protection

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No hypo tax!
Company pays the tax bill.
If it’s in Switzerland (more) the company pays more
If it’s in Mexico, the employee pockets the difference

77
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Totalization agreement

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Social security arrangements between countries

Prevent double social se unity deductions

78
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Universalism

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It IS possible to determine what is true and good. It’s not up to circumstances
Opposite of particularism
Applies to every situation
Black and white vs Chinese gray

79
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Xenocentrism

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Other cultures are superior to your own

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