Human resource management - Answers activities that attract, select and manage employees
ethnocentric approach - Answers an emphasis on the norms and practices of the parent company by
relying on expatriates
expatriate - Answers a non-native employee who works in a foreign country
parent (home) country national - Answers an employee who comes from the parent country of the MNE
and works at its local subsidiary
Host country national - Answers an individual from the host country who works for an MNE.
polycentric approach - Answers an emphasis on the norms and practices of the host country
geocentric approach - Answers a focus on finding the most suitable manage independent of nationality
third country national - Answers an employee that comes neither from the host or the home country
global talent management - Answers the attraction, selection, development and retention of talented
employees in the most strategic roles within an MNE.
GLobal talent pool - Answers employees that are systematically prepared to assume leadership
training - Answers the specific preparation to do a particular job
immersion training - Answers intensive exposure to a foreign culture and language by living within that
culture
culture shock - Answers an expatriate's reaction to a new, unpredictable and therefore uncertain
environment
expatriate stress - Answers stress caused by an imbalance between expectations and abilities affected
by the culture shock
returnees - Answers returning expatriate
repatriation - Answers the process of facilitating the return of expatriates
psychological contract - Answers an informal understanding od expected delivery of benefits in the
future for current services
reverse culture shock - Answers culture shock experience by persons returning to their country of origin
recruitement - Answers the identification of suitable local employees, selection of the most suitable
candidates for each job and hiring off staff