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Management Practices. Lecture-29. Recap. Social Responsibility Obligation to Responsiveness Factors That Affect Employee Ethics Stages of Moral Development. Today’s Lecture. Managing in a Global Environment Four key questions : Global Perspectives
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Management Practices Lecture-29
Recap • Social Responsibility • Obligation to Responsiveness • Factors That Affect Employee Ethics • Stages of Moral Development
Today’s Lecture • Managing in a Global Environment • Four key questions : • Global Perspectives • Different Types of International Organizations • How organizations go global (Important) • Managing in a global environment
Three global attitudes • Ethnocentric Attitude • The best work approaches and practices are those of the home country. • Polycentric Attitude • The host country know the best work approaches and practices for running their business. • Geocentric Attitude • A world-oriented view that focuses on using the best approaches and people from around the globe.
Reasons for engaging in international business: • Profits • Customers • Suppliers • Capital • Labor
Q2: What are different Types of International Organizations ?
Different Types of International Organizations • Multinational Corporation (MNC) • Maintains operations in multiple countries What’s the difference? • Multidomestic Corporation • Global Company • Transnational Corporation (Borderless Organization) • Born Globals/International New Ventures (INVs)
Different Types of International Organizations • Multidomestic Corporation • Decentralizes management and other decisions to the local country. • Gives foreign operations more freedom to operate as separate entities • Global Company • Centralizes its management and other decisions in the home country. • Seeks total integration of global operations
Different Types of International Organizations (cont’d) • Transnational Corporation (Borderless Organization) • Eliminated structural divisions that impose artificial geographic barriers and is organized along business lines that reflect a geocentric attitude. • Born Globals/International New Ventures (INVs) • Commit resources upfront (material, people, financing) to doing business in more than one country.
Schermerhorn/Management, 7e Chapter 5, Figure 05-05 Alternative multinational structures forglobal operations.
Schermerhorn/Management, 7e Chapter 5, Figure 05-02 Common forms of international business–from market entry to direct investment strategies.
Market entry strategies involve the sale of goods or services to foreign markets but do not require expensive investments. • Types of market entry strategies: • Global sourcing • Exporting • Importing • Licensing agreement • Franchising
Direct investment strategies require major capital commitments but create rights of ownership and control over foreign operations. • Types of direct investment strategies: • Joint ventures • Wholly owned subsidiaries
Summary • Managing in a Global Environment • Four key questions : • Global Perspectives • Different Types of International Organizations • How organizations go global (Important) • Managing in a global environment
Next Lecture • Global outsourcing • Exporting and importing • Licensing and Franchising • Foreign subsidiary • Managing in A Global Environment