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The US government offers this visa to offer and enable highly skilled international professionals and/or international students, from all over the world, the opportunity to live and work in the US.
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H1 - B Visa
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This is an international compensation that is designed to equalize the purchasing power of employees at comparable position levels living overseas and in the home-country, and to provide incentives to offset qualitative differences between assignment locations.
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Balance Sheet Approach
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The belief that the ethical standards of one's own country should be imposed when doing business in other countries.
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Ethical Imperialism
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The process of adjusting to one's own culture after spending time away from it.
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Repatriation
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A staffing policy that seeks the best people for key jobs throughout the organization regardless of nationality.
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Geocentric
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This dimension of culture refers to the values people hold that emphasize the future, as opposed to the short-term values focusing on the present and past.
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Long-term Orientation
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The purchase of inputs from foreign suppliers, or the production of inputs from abroad, to lower production costs and improve product quality or design.
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Global Outsourcing
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This is a payment given to expatriates to compensate for differences in expenditures between the home country and the foreign country.
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Cost of Living Allowance
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This is an individual who leaves his or her home country to live and work in a foreign land.
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Expatriate
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The idea that if each country specializes in the production of goods and services that it can produce most efficiently, this will make the best use of global resources.
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Free-trade Doctrine
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A tax that a government imposes on imported or, occasionally, exported goods.
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Tariff
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A management philosophy that leads to the creation of home market-oriented staffing decisions.
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Ethnocentric
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Norms that are considered to be central to the functioning of society and to social life.
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Mores
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A management philosophy oriented toward staffing positions with local talent.
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Polycentric
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The process by which an alien is made a citizen of the United States of America and relinquishes citizenship to any other country.
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Naturalization
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Citizens of a country other than the parent or host country.
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Third-Country Nationals
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This type of expatriate allowance is provided to cover trips back to home country each year.
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Home Leave Allowance
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Non-citizens of the country in which they are working.
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Expatriates
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This project involves a number of researchers throughout the world who study issues related to organizational behavior in 61 countries.
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GLOBE – Global Leadership and Organizational Behavior Effectiveness
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Commonly found in European nations, this is a practice whereby union or worker representatives are given positions on a company's board of directors.
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Co-Determination
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The diverse behaviors, beliefs, customs, traditions, language and expressions that are characteristic to groups of people of a particular race, ethnicity or national origin.
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Cultural Differences
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In China, a person's network of personal and business connections.
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Guanxi
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This dimension of Hofstede’s framework reflects the degree to which members of a society are comfortable focusing on personal goals and being rewarded for personal efforts and outcomes.
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Individualism
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A systematic way of preparing employees to live and work in another country.
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Cross-cultural Training
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This dimension of culture refers to the extent to which people in a country prefer to act as individuals instead of members of a group.
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Individualism
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Dimension of culture that refers to the preference of people in a country for structure rather than unstructured situations.
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Uncertainty Avoidance
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Formal, employee-elected groups of worker representatives that meet with managers to discuss topics ranging, for instance, from non-smoking policies to layoffs.
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Work Councils
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Dimension of culture that emphasizes assertiveness, performance orientation, success, and competitiveness.
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Masculinity
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Dimension of a culture that refers to the inequity among the people of a nation.
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Power Distance
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An Australian national, working for US-based IBM, on assignment in Singapore is an example of this.
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Third-Country National
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Organizations that have significant operations spread throughout various nations but are headquartered in a single nation.
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Multinational Enterprises
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In this strategy, firms tailor their products and services to some degree to meet the needs of different countries or regions of the world but also seek some degree of standardization in order to keep costs reasonably low.
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Transnational strategy
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This is a type of culture where individuals rely on direct questioning to understand people and their communications and where individuals value efficiency and performance.
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Low-context culture
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The process of transferring an individual’s residence from the United States to a foreign country for the purpose of completing an international job assignment.
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Global Relocation
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Foreign nationals who are hired by U.S. employers under the H1-B visa program to fill highly skilled vacancies due to a labor shortage of skilled U.S. applicants.
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Inpatriate
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This act extended equal employment opportunity coverage to all US citizens working overseas.
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CRA 1991
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Non-citizens of the country in which they are working.
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Expatriates
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Citizens of the country in which the multinational company has its headquarters.
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Home-country Nationals
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An economic system in which private enterprise controls production and the interaction of supply and demand determines which and how many goods and services are produced and how much consumers pay for them.
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Free-market Economy
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The country in which a co’s corporate headquarters is located.
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Parent country
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An organization with operating units located in foreign countries
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Multinational enterprise (MNE)
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One having corporate units in a number of countries integrated to operate worldwide
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Global organization
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one of (No Suggestions) cultural dimensions, describes how a culture balances immediate benefits with future rewards.
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Long term short term orientation
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The process of transferring an individual’s residence from the United States to a foreign country for the purpose of completing an international job assignment.
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Global relocation
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The country in which the parent country org seeks to locate or has already located a facility
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Host country
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A citizen of one country, working in a second country end employed by an organization headquartered in a third country
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Third country national
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Employees born and raised in a host, not parent, country
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Host country nationals HCN’s
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These foreign national employees have been transferred to work in the home country of an international organization on a temporary or permanent basis.
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Inpatriate
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Selling and buying goods and services with organizations in other countries
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Importing and exporting
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societal forces affecting the values, beliefs and actions of a distinct group of people.
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Culture
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Preparing and sending global employees to their foreign assignments
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Expatriation
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Pay practices relating to employees who are working on assignments in international locations. A service premium and additional incentives are often included in the compensation package to offset differences in taxes and cost of living.
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Global compensation
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one of (No Suggestions) cultural dimensions, describes the strength of the relation between an individual and other individuals in a society.
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Individualism collectivism
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one of Hofstadter's cultural dimensions describes the division of roles between the sexes within a society.
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Masculinity femininity dimension
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A special case of outsourcing where the jobs that move actually leave one country and go to another.
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Offshoring
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one of Hofstede's cultural dimensions; concerns how a culture deals with hierarchical power relationships particularly the unequal distribution of power.
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Power distance
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The preparation of expatriates for return to the parent co and country from a foreign assignment
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Repatriation
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dimension of culture that refers to the preference of people in a country for structured rather than unstructured situations
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Uncertainty avoidance
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Dimension of cultures that refers to the degree to which masculine values prevail over feminine values
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Masculinity femininity
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An immigration-issued document that allows aliens to obtain temporary residency for the purpose of pursuing employment opportunities within the United States.
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Employment visas
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Foreign nationals who are hired by U.S. employers under the H1-B visa program to fill highly skilled vacancies due to a labor shortage of skilled U.S. applicants.
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Impatriate
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employees who were born and live in a parent country.
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Parent country nationals PCN’s
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dimension of culture that refers to the inequality among the people of the nation
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Power distance
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An employee working for a firm in an operation who is citizen of the country where the operation is located, but where the headquarters for the firm are in another country
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Host country national
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A new operation that is built from “the ground up”.
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Greenfield Operation
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dimension of culture that refers to the extent to which pl in a country prefer to act as individuals instead of members of groups
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Individualism
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exporting jobs to rural parts of the united states
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On shoring
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planning, training, and reassignment of global employees to their home countries
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Repatriation
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An employee who is transferred to work abroad on a long-term job assignment.
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Expatriate
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The term used to describe increasingly mobile organizations that are performing their operations in foreign countries.
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Globalization
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An organizations use of an outside org for a broad set of services.
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Outsourcing
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dimension of culture that refers to values people hold that emphasize the future as opposed to short term values focusing on the present and the past
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Long term orientation
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An employee working in an operation, who is not a citizen of the country in which the operation is located, but is a citizen of the country of the headquarters organization.
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Expatriate
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A legal system that requires workers and their managers to discuss major decisions.
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Codetermination
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This is what people have regarding what is right and wrong, good and bad, important and unimportant.
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Values
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The global organization of countries that oversees rules and regulations for international trade and investment.
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World Trade Organization
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A Japanese term that means “continuous improvement.”
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Kaizen
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Expatriate managers who are citizens of the country where the multinational corporation is headquartered.
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Home-country Nationals
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