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25 Cards in this Set
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What are the 3 basic dimensions of an international business enterprise? __ or __ needs, __ needs, and __ or __ needs.
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technical or product, functional, regional or enviornmental
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specialized factors such as construction, operation, and manufacturing
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technical or product needs
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specialized knowledge of personnel planning, purchasing, and finance
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functional needs
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specialized knowledge of foreign countries culture
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regional or environmental needs
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6 types of organizational structures: F, ID, FS, PD, R, M
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functional, international, foreign subsidiary, product division, regional, and matrix
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Functional structure:__ knowledge centered on __,__,__, or __. (used by __ firms)
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product
manufacturing, engineering, marketing, management smaller |
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organizational structure that supervises exports, foreign sales branches, and foreign staff subsidiaries
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International division
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In a foreign subsidiary structure, each foreign subsidiary is treated as a __. A __ strategy is used.
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entity
multidomestic |
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Used when corporations are diversified and contain many products
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product division structure
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Regional structure: Regional heads responsible for specific __
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territories
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combines highly decentralized decision making with centralized corporate strategy and vision. Used by What corporations?
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Matrix structure
global |
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A/D of functional structure:
A- __ expertise, __ control D-weak __ coordination |
functional, tight
regional |
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A/D of international division:
A- __ __ responsibility D- __, __ slowdown |
focused international
bottleneck, exports |
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A/D of Foreign subsidiary structure
A- __ of affiliates, direct __ __ __ D-diffuseness of __ __ |
autonomy, top management involvement
international responsibility |
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A/D of product division structure:
A- __ and __ emphasis D- weakness is __ __ __ |
product, technology
worldwide know how |
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A/D of regional structure:
A- __ and __ D- weak __ __ knowledge |
decentralization and adaption
worldwide product |
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A/D of matrix structure:
A- C__ and C__ D- __ and __ |
coordination, cooperation
expensive, complex |
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top management in domestic, international, and senior corporate organizations must do these 3 things: Allow for the __ and __ of a __,__ vision
Allow for __ __ __ integrate __ __ into a __ __ __ |
development, communication, clear, corporate
effective HR tools individual thinking, broad corporate agenda |
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3 types of international managerial staffing
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expatriate, host country national, third county national
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Ethnocentric
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staff with your own
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polycentric
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staff with employees from host country
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geocentric
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nationality should not influence assignment
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3 primary functions of international HR
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procurement, allocation, and use
home country, host country, third country home country employees, host country employees, third country employees |
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Additional functions of international HR: developing the global __ of the __, e__ rates, foreign __ relations, foreign __ and __ training
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mindset, organization
exchange gov't language, cultural |
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Broader HR perspective: more__ in __ lives, response to the workforce __, R__ E__, __ influences
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involvement, employee
mix risk exposure external |
