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Internal Compensation
Re-entry and career issues
IHRM in the Host-Country Context
International Industrial Relations
Performance Management
100
A payment to compensate for differences in expenditures between the home country and foreign country.
What is cost-of-living allowance?
100
Typically on completion of the international assignment, the multinational brings the expatriate back into the country.
What is repatriation?
100
Fragmenting the workplace around common principles and objectives, the use of common management practices, and creating a consistent working environment.
What is standardization of HRM practices?
100
Memberships in these organizations have been declining since 1995.
What is union membership?
100
Data obtained from subsidiaries that may be neither interpretable nor reliable.
What is non-comparable data?
200
Firms withhold an amount equal to the home-county tax obligation of the PCN, and pay all takes in the host country.
What is tax equalization?
200
Placing value on the benefits of the international assignment such as knowledge, skill transfer, management development, and relationship/network building compared to what is being invested by the multinational.
What is return on investment?
200
The implementing of methods and techniques that respect local cultural values, traditions, and legislations.
What is localization?
200
Temporary or transitory movement of labor, whereby employers use workers from one country or area in an another country or area where the cost of labor is usually more expensive.
What is social dumping?
200
Carries the assignment of building in a foreign subsidiary a structure similar to that which he or she knows from another part of a company.
What is the structure reproducer?
300
The base salary for the international transfer is linked to the salary structure in the host country.
What is the going rate approach?
300
• Family adjustment • Social networks • Effect on partner’s career
What are social factors?
300
The role that specifies the position of a particular unit in relation to the rest of the organization and defines what is expected of it in terms of contribution to the efficiency of the MNE.
What is the subsidiary role?
300
Function as loose confederations to provide worldwide links for the national unions in a particular trade or industry.
What is international trade secretariats (ITSs)?
300
• Compensation package • Tasks • Headquarters support • Host environment • Cultural adjustment
What are variables affecting expatriate performance?
400
In this approach the objective is to “keep the expat whole” through a maintenance of home-country living standard plus a financial inducement to make the package attractive.
What is the balance sheet approach?
400
• Career Anxiety • Work adjustment • Coping with new role demands • Loss of status and pay
What are reactions to re-entry?
400
Rules and regulation governing HRM practices in the host country such as: acceptable working conditions, no child labor, and fair minimum wages.
What is code of conduct?
400
Formidable financial resources, alternative sources of supply, the ability to move production facilities to other countries, a remote locus of authority, productions facilities in many industries, superior knowledge and expertise in industrial relations, and the capacity to stage an investment strike are all sources of trade union concern about multinationals.
What is the response of trade unions to multinationals?
400
Involves a set of decisions on the dimensions and level of performance criteria, task and role definitions, and the timing of the formal and informal aspects of the appraisal.
What is individual performance management?
500
The working time required to buy one Big Mac in LA.
What is 10 minutes?
500
Social disappointment related to the loss of profile, that involves interaction with the social and economic elite, upon repatriation.
What is kingpin syndrome?
500
• Strategy and structure • Corporate culture • Firm size and maturity • Cultural environment • Institutional environment • Mode of operation • Subsidiary role
What is balancing the standardization and localization of HRM in MNEs?
500
• Influencing wage levels to the extent that cost structures may become uncompetitive. • Constraining the ability of multinationals to vary employment levels at will. • Preventing global integration of the operations of multinationals.
What are trade union constraints?
500
They assist in devising performance appraisals where cultures and customs may hinder giving a truthful performance appraisal.
What is host country nationals?