Question

Widget Corp., a technological firm based in the U.S., mainly relies on staffing its employees from the U.S. for its operations. It adopts the same approach in staffing the top positions of its foreign subsidiaries as they have perfect understanding of the norms and cultures of the parent company. In this case, Widget Corp. follows a(n) _______ in staffing.

Answer 1

Answer:

By staffing its employees from the countries all its subsidiaries are located Widget Corp follows an ethnocentric approach.

Explanation:

The ethnocentric approach is a Human Resources method of international recruitment, and because Widget Corp has presence in a diversity of nations they can perform this type of recruitment style. This particular method consists in choosing the particularly correct person for he job. It might require some general skills, knowledges and competences. But also it will have to share some sociological factors to the population of the subsidiary because that way the employee is going to have more probabilities of performing better than a foreigner that will have to adapt to the countries culture.