The Importance Of Cultural Difference To International Management

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    Of Bears, Bumble-Bees, and Spiders: the Role of Expatriates in Controlling Foreign Subsidiaries

    multinational companies. We discuss three key organizational functions of expatriation: position filling, management development, and organization development. In the last function, organization development, international transfers are used as an informal coordination and control strategy through socialization and the building of informal communication networks. The article explores this role of international transfers in greater detail, but also discusses a more formal way in which expatriates can control

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    Negotiation

    International Journal of Economics and Finance www.ccsenet.org/ijef Cross-cultural Communication in Business Negotiations Liangguang Huang English Department, Zhenjiang Watercraft College of PLA Zhenjiang 212003, China E-mail: Blackhawk1975@126.com Abstract All communication is cultural -- it draws on ways we have learned to speak and give nonverbal messages. With the implementation of the Economic Reform and Opening policies, more and more Chinese companies do business with the foreigners

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    Effective Management of Multicultural Team

    more people from different cultural and ethnic backgrounds intermarrying. Their children could be born and grow up in different countries and have hybrid cultural identities. Globalization and the advances in communication and transportation technology have reduced trade barriers and increased interaction among people. Multicultural teams have become more common in our organizations, and contemporary international management literature has identified that the management of multicultural teams is an

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    Internation Business

    International Business Pt-PGPM Dr. Ankur Roy Asst. Professor Strategic Management Area Email: ankur.roy@mdi.ac.in INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS The course on International Business is designed for those who intend to pursue a career in International Business and for those who believe, to be successful it is necessary to understand the globalization, its evolution, patterns, drivers and linkages as the future consists of economies that will be absolutely interdependent due to rapid dismantling

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    Hr Accounting

    Journal of International Business and Cultural Studies Human resource accounting and international developments: implications for measurement of human capital Maria L. Bullen Clayton State University Kel-Ann Eyler Wesleyan College Abstract Human Resource Accounting (HRA) involves accounting for expenditures related to human resources as assets as opposed to traditional accounting which treats these costs as expenses that reduce profit. Interest and contributions to growth in HRA have been evident

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    Cross Cultural Communication

    International Journal of Economics and Finance www.ccsenet.org/ijef Cross-cultural Communication in Business Negotiations Liangguang Huang English Department, Zhenjiang Watercraft College of PLA Zhenjiang 212003, China E-mail: Blackhawk1975@126.com Abstract All communication is cultural -- it draws on ways we have learned to speak and give nonverbal messages. With the implementation of the Economic Reform and Opening policies, more and more Chinese companies do business with the foreigners

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    Reference for International Marketing True/False 1. Confucian philosophy, taught throughout Japan’s history, emphasizes the basic virtue of loyalty to the country. ( T ) Confucian philosophy, taught throughout Japan’s history, emphasizes the basic virtue of loyalty “of friend to friend, of wife to husband, of child to parent, of brother to brother, but, above all, of subject to lord,” that is, to country. 2. The uncontrollable factors affecting international marketing are limited to political forces

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    OTASC_2-2_Layout 9/8/05 11:30 am Page 83 Journal of Organisational Transformation and Social Change Volume 2 Number 2 © 2005 Intellect Ltd Article. English Language. doi: 10.1386/jots.2.2.83/1 Towards a generic international human resource management (IHRM) model Jie Shen University of South Australia Abstract Keywords Reflecting the prevailing Western literature and based on an empirical study in Chinese multinational enterprises (MNEs), this study develops an IHRM model

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    Lizz-Bossard Anette

    Switzerland Professor: Prof. Dr. Norbert Thom Teaching Assistant: Anja Habegger, lic. rer. pol. Supervising Professor in Seattle: Prof. Richard B. Peterson Institute for Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management Engehaldenstrasse 4 CH-3012 Bern, Switzerland Department for Management and Organization, University of Washington Business School Seattle, WA 98105-3200, United States of America by: Annette Bossard from Luzern, Switzerland Student ID number: 98-102-544 4714 17th Ave NE # 11

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    Challenges for International Human Resource Managers

    International human resource management (IHRM) is concerned with identifying and understanding how multinational organisations (MNC’s) manage their geographically dispersed workforce in order to sustain their competitive advantage. Literature shows that globalisation has brought about new challenges and increased complexity for human resource (HR) directors in managing organisational systems in areas of recruitment and selection and training and development (Kayworth and Leidner, 2000; Selmer, 2001;

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