Chap 17 Managing Human Resources Flashcards
Labor market
The pool of available potential employees with the necessary shills within commuting distance from an employer.
Expatriate
A person living outside his or her country of citizenship.
Labor mobility
The movement of people from country to country or area to area to get jobs
Brain drain
The he loss by a country of its most intelligent and best educated people
Reverse brain drain
The return home of highly skilled immigrants who have made a contribution in their adopted country
Labor unions
Organizations of workers
Collective bargaining
The process I. Which a union represents the interests of workers bargaining in negotiations with management
Ethnocentric
As used here, related to hiring and promoting employees in the basis of the parent company’s home-country frame of reference
Poly centric
As used here, related to hiring and promoting employees I. The basis of specific local context in which the subsidiary operates.
Regiocentric
As used here, related to hiring and promoting employees on the basis of specific regional context in which the subsidiary operates
Geocentric
As used here, related to hiring and promoting employees on the basis of ability and experience without considering race or citizenship
Home-country national
Same as parent-country national
Parent-country national (PCN)
Employee who is a citizen of the nation in which the parent company is headquarters; also called home-country national
Host-country national (HCN)
Employee who is a citizen of the anti onion which the subsidiary is operating, which is different from the parent company’s home nation.
Third-country national (TCN)
Employee who is a citizen of neither the parent country nation nor the host country
