Question

Jerome Johnston, the human resource manager at the U.S.-based Swingset International, is developing an international staffing policy for the company. Jerome personally believes Swingset should send managers from the United States to manage each subsidiary. But the CEO of the company, Valerie Vermont, believes subsidiary operations ought to be managed by individuals from the host country. The approach recommended by Valerie is called ________

Answer 1

Answer:

Polycentric staffing.

Explanation:

When in an international business, like Swingset, you hire management for a subsidiary that resides in another country you have two choices: to have a ethnocentric or polycentric staff. The first, recommended by Jerome, would mean to hire people from the parent country whereas polycentric would hire from the host country.