Staffing Strategy in International Busines | From a Business Professor

When Elon Musk opened its Tesla Giga factory in Shanghai, China, one of the most important questions to him would be whom should be selected as its subsidiary manager. An American? A Chinese? An American born Chinese, or someone from a third country?

The above question essentially is about a firm’s staffing strategy. Staffing strategy is concerned with the selection of employees for particular jobs. Many business cases have shown that firm’s staffing strategy is critical for its survival and success because it not only involves selecting individuals who have the skills required to do particular jobs, but also can be a tool for developing and promoting the desired corporate culture of the firm.

Research has identified three types of staffing strategies in international businesses: the ethnocentric approach, the polycentric approach, and the geocentric approach. In this video, I will introduce all of these approaches with their advantages and disadvantages for you.

[claytonhouse]

After learning more about expatriates from another video, this video ties together, on a larger scale, the complexity and reasoning for many businesses to outsource, along with how they do so. It is obvious why international business, as a sector, pays so well after learning its true makeup.

[dane_adams]

To my understanding, the geocentric approach seems the most reasonable and effective for human resource. From what I see, this appears to have the most positive effects, that outweigh the disadvantages and prove to be the best on the global scale.

[jmanic]

I work as a manager at a country club in Tyler, it has been really been hard to find employees that actually want to work. It was extremely interesting to learn the different ways that businesses find and hire employees.

[mindy_miller]

I learned a lot from this video because I am the assistant manager at my job and there have been issues with the staffing part of the business, I really enjoyed learning about staffing strategies for other businesses and the different takeaways from those experiences and work on applying some of them to my business.

[meiravkatz]

This is a very clear video with great examples. Thank you!

[cademaclin]

I particularly enjoyed this video because of the real world examples with actual companies. When there is an actual company that an example can be tied into I better grasp the concept because it's like putting a face to a name. I loved seeing how different staffing strategies are implemented across the globe and by different companies.

[danielrigsby]

Staffing and utilizing your Human resources is a vital part of business. This Video does a great job of showing the advantages and disadvantages of the 3 different approaches. I think choosing which of the strategies to use relies on the "soft skills" that your human recourses have.

[seancastner]

Staffing strategies are extremely important for any international business. As mentioned in the video, the incorrect staffing choice can result to the utter failure of a branch of the business, or the business as a whole. I liked how the different approaches were organized and explained.

[pattyhasbell]

Staffing is important I have worked for international companies and the best success I have found is a merging of both the parent corporation and country of location is both in the management as a mentor to parent officers but the parent officers to mold the country officers for the quality of the product to be maintained.

[karmaelwell]

The video demonstrated the crucial role that staffing and personnel play in a business. It was intriguing to explore various staffing strategies, as it allowed me to understand the pros and cons associated with each approach.

[kamryncourtney]

Before this class, I had no idea how much went into doing business internationally, so this was incredibly interesting to learn about. I also love the images provided within this video, as I feel it helped explain each approach even better. I wish more businesses took staffing more seriously, as this seems beneficial with the right employees, but they have to be willing to work, and want the same things as the people hiring, which is difficult to find today in my opinion.

[samuelfuentes]

Interesting video and it’s staffing strategies . Useful for any business to learn and keep in mind. This would help any business understand the importance staffing strategies in international business

[leslievazquez]

This video made me understand that it is important to choose the right people for a job. Not only because of their ability but because it seems to set an image for the company. In addition, learning about the different approaches was interesting because I did not think there were three approaches to staffing.

[jullyamy]

It is very interesting to know the staffing strategies of international business. Human resources will be very diverse and experienced employees from different countries will have many unique ideas to develop the company as well as the branch they work for.

[johnsawyer]

I have never really considered staffing strategies and their importance before. Actually, I did not realize that there were even strategies to this topic. My initial thought of the topic was that every company would follow an ethnocentric approach, but after reviewing this video, it is clear that that is not the case with the existence and implementations of the polycentric and geocentric approaches. Personally, I think the geocentric approach makes the most sense if regulations and its expense are limited. Great video!

[taylordowd]

This video shows how important staffing strategies are. The limitations are helpful with showing how they are not all positive

[zoievinson]

Nowadays there are a lot of businesses that have problems finding employees. I feel that if managers would know about these three approaches it would help them find better fit employees for their jobs. Also resulting in long term employees. Love this video!!

[MaxineDePalma]

It never occurred to me that different business strategies would need to implement different HRM strategies, especially when it comes to staffing. This is a very interesting concept, and I like how the video laid out the advantages and limitation of each staffing strategy. One concept I think is very important is resentment in host-country employees. It makes sense that a host-country employee would find it difficult to work in an environment where they felt their culture and business practices were not understood by their managers. It would also lead to problems if they felt there was not growth for them in the company. This is an important thing to consider when choosing a staffing policy.

[oliviachennault]

Using the real life very well known company Tesla, really helped me grasp the concepts discussed in this lecture. I was very interested in learning about all of the advantages as well as the disadvantages for the Ethnocentric, Polycentric, and Geocentric approaches. It always surprises me how involved other countries are in companies and brands I uses or hear about in my day to day. I thing is was a great video to end the course on and I will be using these videos in my following courses to help me in my studies.

[valerieholmes]

I thought this video was super informative about how every business should be serious about the different staffing strategies. I think staffing is one of the most important aspects of running a successful business.