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The planning, selection, training, employment, and evaluation of employees for international operations
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International human resource managment (IHRM)
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an employee who is a citizen of the country where the MNE subsidiary or affiliate is located
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Host-country national (HCN)
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An employee who is a citizen of the country where the MNE is headquartered
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Parent-country national (PNC)
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An employee who is a citizen of a country other than the home or hose country
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Third-country national (TCN)
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An employee who is assigned to wrok and reside in a foreign country for an extended period, ususally a year or longer
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Expatriate
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The premature return of an employee from an international assignment
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Expatriate failure
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The confusion and anxiety, often akin to mental depression, that can result from living in a foreign culture for an extended period
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Culture shock
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Factual knowledge of the historical, political, and economic environment of the host country
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Area studies
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Knowledge and skills necessary to function effectively in a country, inclding housing, health care, education, and daily living.
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Practical information
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Ability to interact effectively and appropriately with people from different language and cultural backgrounds
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Cross-cultural awareness
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The return of the expatriate to his or her home country following the completion of a lengthy foreign assignment
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Repatriation
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The capability of an employee to function effectively in situations characterized by cultural diversity
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Cultural intelligence
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A searchable database of employees, profiling their international skill sets and potental for supporting the firms global aspirations
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Global talent pool
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An internationally distributed group of people with a specific mandate to make or implement decisions that are international in scope
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Global team
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The formal process of assessing how effectively employees perform their jobs
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Performance appraisal
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Collective negotiations between managment and hourly labor and techniccal staff regarding wages and working conditions
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Collective bargaining
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An industrial relations practice where labor representatives sit on the corporate board and participate in company decision making
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codetermination
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Involves seraching for and locting potential job candidates to fill the firms needs
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Recruitment
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Involves gathering information to evaluate and decide who should be employed in particular jobs
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Selection
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characterize by an openess to and arcticulation of, multiple cultural and strategic realities on both global and local levels
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global mindset
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the process through which management and workers identify and determine the job relationships that will be in effect at the workplace
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labor relations
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