Which factors determine the choice of a staffing approach? Would a MNE choose the same staffing approach worldwide? Place your arguments in the context of the model outlining determinants of staffing choices.
Expert Answer
1. Context specificities: It depends on cultural context, Availability of staff, Type of industry etc
2. Local unit specifities: Estabilishment method, Locus of decion, need of control etc.
3. Company specificities.: Governance mechanism involved ( International , local, organisational culture).
It can be of ethnocentric, polycentric, regiocentric and geocentric in nature.
MNE wouldnot chose the same staffing mechanism in all the countries. Depends on business capability and scope of expansion, culture of country, skill set , cost of labour, labour law etc staffing policies and mechanism will change.