2. Staffing Policies in MNC’S
Staffing policies in international HRM defines the process through which the MNC
assigns the foreign job to the most appropriate candidate. There are three approaches to
staffing in MNC’s. Polycentric approach to international management is the policy
involved in hiring and promoting employees who are citizens of the host country. The
polycentric approach involves low costs of recruiting and training with lesser problems
of adjustment and communication since all employees are from the same region.
Ethnocentric approach is used in MNC’s having international strategic orientation
while polycentric approach maintains employees from the same area, ethnocentric
involves sending employees from the home or parent countries to the host country.
Geocentric staffing approach is adopted when companies implement a transnational
orientation. In such an approach people are recruited based on their skills and
experiences irrespective of their nationality