Professional Documents
Culture Documents
Management (IHRM)
International Management:
an Overview (Master 1)
Yohan Bernard
2009 / 2010
HR planning Staffing
Performance
Labor relations
management
2009 / 2010
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International HRM (Morgan, 1986)
2009 / 2010
2009 / 2010
2
Staffing: Ethnocentric approach
Country B
Country A Country C
Country H
Headquarter Country D
(Parent-country)
Country G Country E
Country F
2009 / 2010
Country B
Country A Country C
Country H
Headquarter Country D
(Parent-country)
Country G Country E
Country F
2009 / 2010
3
Staffing: Geocentric approach
Country B
Country A Country C
Country H
Headquarter Country D
(Parent-country)
Country G Country E
Country F
2009 / 2010
Country B
Country A Country C
Country H
Headquarter Country D
(Parent-country)
Country G Country E
Country F
2009 / 2010
4
Expatriation problems
• Global networking
• Selection • Adaptation
• Rotation • Education
• Re-entry
2009 / 2010
5
Expatriates’ acculturation (‘the four Fs’)
Expatriate culture shock
2009 / 2010
Source: Lasserre (2007)
Selection and
Strategic vision
preparation
Support Tenure
2009 / 2010
Source: Lasserre (2007)
6
Three modes of transfer policy (Edstrom and
Galbraith, 1977)
2009 / 2010
Tolerance of ambiguity
Behavioral flexibility
Goal orientation
Sociability and interest in other people
Empathy
Non-judgementalness
Meta-communication skills
2009 / 2010
7
Relative Cost of Living in Selected Cities
Tokyo Frankfurt
Oslo Beijing
Zurich Moscow
Hong Kong Rome
Copenhagen Tel Aviv
Paris Mexico City
London Toronto
New York Prague
Singapore Jakarta
Stockholm Warsaw
Seoul Kuala Lumpur
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The length of expatriate assignments
2009 / 2010
Repatriation of expatriates
Leave firm
within one year.
10 20 30 40
2009 / 2010
50 60 70 %
9
Repatriation of expatriates
2009 / 2010
Retention and
Recruitment career
management
Cultural
differences
Reward Performance
practices evaluation
2009 / 2010
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