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CASE STUDY
Spanning the Globe

1 Summarize your thoughts on the problems at hand, alternative solutions and your strategy on how to proceed at the forthcoming meeting
In this case, we are facing different problems. The biggest problem here is the expatriate’s expectation. In our case, Fred illustrates this problem. Fred is a reliable and old employee of Texmark, he is a brilliant engineer. He is always ready and agrees to travel for his job (Scotland, Mexico, and India). But “today Fred was angry and disappointed that an eighteen-month assignment in India had turned into a three-year assignment, and that a research position in Durham “promised” to him by a previous VP was filled by a younger Durham resident employee”. How far the …show more content…

Furthermore here the company uses the ethnocentric approach which suits for an international strategy, it creates global culture, and the transfer of core competencies are advantages of this strategy but this kind of strategy still expensive. As the company would like to reduce the costs of training and shorter the assignment, we think that polycentric staffing philosophy would suit better to the organization. Polycentric management “is an approach found in international firms where host-country nationals manage the subsidiaries. Decision-making is devolved to the subsidiaries, although head office in the parent country controls the overall business strategy. From this perspective, host-country nationals are considered important because they can bring local knowledge and understanding to the day-to-day operations of the subsidiary businesses.”(Heery, Edmund, and Mike Noon. "polycentric management." OxfordReference. 17 Nov.2014.). This strategy means that the key positions re staffed by local managers, then the company could reduce its costs, and it also avoids the adjustment problems of expatriate managers and their families. Employing host country nationals eliminates language barrier and this strategy avoids the turnover of key managers that results from the ethnocentric approach.

The solution that can be suggested to the issue of Chinese Operation is to develop a regional center in Asia Pacific region as the main issue as can be understood is the cultural

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