You are a consultant who has been hired to advise the manager of an internationalHRM function for a firm whose staffing view is ethnocentric. You find out that thefirm has been spending far too much money assigning expatriates to manage itsforeign operations who then return early with the assignment incomplete, and thatthe host country nationals working for the foreign subsidiaries are disgruntled
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You are a consultant who has been hired to advise the manager of an international
HRM function for a firm whose staffing view is ethnocentric. You find out that the
firm has been spending far too much money assigning expatriates to manage its
foreign operations who then return early with the assignment incomplete, and that
the host country nationals working for the foreign subsidiaries are disgruntled
because their managers are foreigners and do things differently. Neither the foreign
managers or the staff can work well together and as a result, feelings are running
high.
In the context of cross cultural adjustment and effective international staffing
across cultures, advise the company why they may be experiencing some of the
problems outlined and what they can do about it.
Source: Adapted from Rodrigues, C.,2009. International Management. A Cultural
Approach. 3rd Edition. Thousand Oaks: Sage (p268)
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