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Define the polycentric, ethnocentric, and geocentric approaches to staffing. Identify the advantages and disadvantages of each for international company staffing. If you were responsible for expanding a business overseas, which of the staffing approaches would you use? Why?

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The polycentric approach to staffing is essentially an approach that is based upon the premise of staffing an organization with employees from the host nation. A key advantage to the polycentric approach to staffing, is that it is easier for an organization to market goods that have been produced by individuals who reside in the nation in which the goods will be marketed. A disadvantage to this approach to staffing is that there may be cultural barriers ...

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