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This 9 page paper looks at the way in which selection factors will vary when a firm is looking at the type of employee to recruit in the context of parent company nationals (PCNs) differ from third company nationals (TCNs) and host country nationals (HCNs) and the potential influence in terms of the approach found in the firm, such as a ethnocentric or a polycentric approach. The bibliography cites 12 sources.
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File: TS14_TEPCNHCN.rtf
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into the decision making process. There has been a great deal of attention regarding the influences in terms of the economic and factor conditions, models such as Dunnings OLI paradigm
demonstrate the importance of different elements that may attract investment in a firm (Mintzberg et al, 2008), but less attention has been paid to the investment in employees. It may
be argued that there are many influences on the way that an employee makes employment decision and the way employers should make decisions regarding the employees that are selected within
the international context. The aim of this paper is to consider some of these differences in terms of the way that employee selection may vary depending upon their point
of origin and the firms. In multinational enterprises it is estimated that up to 80% of the companies will make use of some form of expatriate workers (Black and Gregersen,
1999), therefore, understanding why and how these differences manifest can help to improve the processes and potentially improve the success of recruitment and selection practices. In order to consider how
and why there are differences the potential status of the employs in terms so their point of origin and the approaches that can be used may be assessed and then
the influences themselves may be considered in this context. 2. Types of Employee When a firm is considering the expansion the status of the firm in terms of location
and ownership may be relevant. Three potential statuses can be considered, there are three potential styles of employees; parent company nationals (PCNs) differ from third company nationals (TCNs) and
host country nationals (HCNs). Parent company nationals are employees that come from the home nations of the parent company and then work in a local subsidiary, this type of
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