Discussion:
"Approaches to Staffing"
• Imagine that you are the HR manager of a multinational enterprise (MNE). You have been tasked with staffing a subsidiary in Asia. Select the approach to staffing that you would utilize in this situation and provide a rationale for your decision. Support your selection with one (1) example of the successful implementation of this approach.
• Determine the manner in which organizations can locate qualified candidates when operating MNEs. Provide a rationale for your response. Take a position on whether or not an ethnocentric approach to staffing is the best option when staffing outside of an organization's home country. Support your position; if you disagree, suggest an alternative approach.
• Determine two (2) advantages to using international assignments versus local nationals when expanding a company into a new country. Support your response with examples of each of the two (2) such advantages.
• Examine two (2) reasons that multinationals should be concerned about expatriate failure. Propose two (2) actions that a company can take in order to prevent expatriate failure.