Thank you for your version on this topic. I am currently taking a course on HRM and this video was sooooo much better than the TED talk video recommendation for this week's discussion topic.
Awesome! Take a look at my HRM Playlist. There's about 15 videos out there on all kinds of HR topics. Maybe some if them will be helpful for your class.
I think Bells Labs before it declined followed the Geocentric Approach, but I'm not fully sure. What I don't understand about the Ethnocentric Approach and the Polycentric Approach is why don't companies have a compromise with who they hire? If language and communication is a barrier in the Polycentric Approach, then why not hire a manager who can speak their native language and the language of headquarters? Why not hire a dedicated translator? If there's isolation in Polycentric, why aren't measures made to avoid that? I'm sure these are more complex than I realize, but know for sure that sometimes corporate business loves to make things more complicated than they have to be.
I had read that the two countries were Germany and South Korea. Glad to hear I got it right. Thank you!!! I get the theory content from textbooks, but the case studies are from various business and economics publications.
