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Unit 5: Recruitment and Selection for International Assignments

Question Notes
How does SCA ltd. facilitate adjustment of its expatriates?

Source: http://epubl.ltu.se/1402-1552/2007/005/LTU-DUPP-07005-SE.pdf

5.6 Summary

 The four approaches to multinational staffing decisions—ethnocentric, polycentric,
geocentric, and regiocentric—tend to reflect the managerial philosophy towards
international operations held by top management at headquarters.
 In the human resource cycle, recruitment and selection process are the main variables
influencing directly the ‘performance’ as also the ‘employee development processes’.
 Recruitment is defined as the process of identifying and attracting the potential candidate
from within and outside an organisation to begin evaluating them for future employment.

 The four generic processes: selection, performance appraisal, rewards management and
human resource development reflect sequential managerial tasks.
 Human Resource Management is crucial to organisational competitiveness and
productivity due to the growing diversity of the world’s workforce and its increasing
importance. The need to manage this diversity better has become a major challenge to the
international manager.
 There are various issues which have to be taken care before selecting the expatriates for an
international assignment.
 Indian women have a track record holding important political positions too few have
achieved similar success in ranks of business management like Indira Nooyi, Kiran
Majhumdar, Chanda Kocchar, etc.
 For companies developing a geocentric staffing policy, transferring subsidiary staff to
other subsidiaries, as well as to headquarters, is an important part of creating an
international team.
 Selection is the process by which the organisation chooses from among the applicants,
those people who are perceived the best meet the job requirements.

5.7 Keywords

Culture: It is a set of the set of shared attitudes, values, goals, and practices that characterises an
institution, organisation or group.
Ethnocentric Approach: An ethnocentric approach to staffing results in all key positions in a
multinational being filled by Parent-country Nationals (PCNs).
Expatriate: An employee who lives and works in a foreign country.
External recruitment: Applicants are from outside the organisation.
Internal Recruitment: Candidates are from the organisation itself. Source of internal recruitment
is promotion from within, job posting and employee referrals.
Recruitment: It is a process of identifying and attracting the potential talented candidates to
apply for a vacancy in the organisation for the future employment.

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