Human Resources Management Staffing Approaches

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The most important resources of an organization are its Human
Resources. Staffing has been described as the managerial function of
filling, the position in an organization structure. This is achieved by
identifying requirement of work force, followed by recruitment,
selection, placement, promotion, appraisal, and development of
personnel, to fill the roles designed into the organization structure.

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• Training and Development
• Effective Co-ordination
• Effective Recruitment and Placement
• Building effective human resources

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4 Approaches:
• Ethnocentric approaches
• Polycentric approaches
• Regiocentric approach
• Geocentric approaches

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Ethnocentric approaches- People from the home country i.e. Parent
Country National fill top management and other key position
Advantages
• Organization control and coordination is maintained and facilitated
• Promising managers are given international experience.
• Assure that subsidiary will comply with company objectives.
Disadvantage
• Limits the promotion opportunity of home country nation which may
lead to reduce productivity and increased turnover among that group
• Income package of expatriates are 4 times higher than locals.

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Polycentric approaches- MNCs with this approaches subsidiaries with
home country nation and its home office with parent country nation.
Advantages
• Eliminates language barriers
• Avoid adjustment problem of expatriates and their families and
removes the need for cultural awareness training
• Less expensive
Disadvantage
• Gap between HQ and subsidiaries increased which become difficult
to be managed
• Limited career opportunities for home country nation and parent
country nation managers

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Geocentric approaches- This approaches utilizes the best people for
key job through out the organization, regardless of nationality
Advantages
• Enables an MNC to develop an international executive team
• Overcome the federation drawback of polycentric approach.
Disadvantages
• Expensive to implement because of training and relocation expense
• Time consuming
• Requires more centralized control of staffing

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Regiocentric approaches- Regionally oriented approach where an
MNCs divide its operation into geographical regions and transfer staff
within those regions.
Advantages
• Allows interaction between executives transferred to regional HQ
• A steps for MNCs to move from purely poly or ethnocentric or
geocentric approach
Disadvantages
• It provides federalism at regional basis rather than country basis.
This serves as a barrier in taking a global stance
• Limits career progression opportunities to the regional level

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• Analyzing manpower requirements- It is making analysis of work
and estimating the manpower.
• Recruitment- Is identifying and attracting capable applicant for
employment.
• Selection- It is choosing the fit candidates from the application
received in the process recruitment.
• Placement- This may be on probation and on successfully
completion concerned
• Training and Development- It is concerned with imparting and
developing specific skill for a particular purpose.
• Performance appraisal- Systematic evaluation of personnel by
superiors or other familiar with performance as to rank employees to as
certain their eligibility for promotion

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• Selection based on headquarters criteria rather than assignment
needs
• Inadequate preparation, training, and orientation prior to assignment
• Alienation or lack of support from headquarters
• Inability to adapt to local culture and working environment
• Problems with spouse and children – poor adaptation, family
unhappiness
• Insufficient compensation and financial support
• Poor programs for career support and repatriation

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Culture shock is a state of disorientation and anxiety about not knowing
how to behave in an unfamiliar culture. The cause of culture shock is
the trauma people experience in new and different cultures, where they
lose the familiar signs and cues that they had used to interact in daily
life and where they must learn to cope with a vast array of new cultural
cues and expectations.

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Allowances
• Cost-of-living allowances
• Housing standard
• Education
• Relocation
• Perquisites
• Home leave
• Shipping and storage

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Sunil Kr Ahirwar
Amity International Business School
Amity University Noida- 125
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Email- sunil.ahirwar@student.amity.edu