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Question: Under what circumstances should a multi-national firm use a poly-centric approach to staffing its subsidiaries? Provide an example or two to illustrate agruments.

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When utilizing a polycentric staffing approach, a MNE considers each of its overseas ventures as a unique national entity that possesses autonomy in decision-making. The overseas ventures tend to be managed by host country nationals who rarely receive promotions to headquarters in the parent country. That is, a firm believing in this approach will decentralize its HRM functions on a country-by-country basis; coordination between overseas ventures will be minimal, and the individual locations will be responsible for ...

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