S., and its culture, therefore, borrows heavily from the American culture, which is well-known for uncertainty avoidance (Reiche & Harzing, 2009).
Expatriate's Language and Culture Preparedness: the success of any international assignment depends upon the employees' ability to interact and work together efficiently towards a common goal. The Chinese, for instance, interact and would be more willing to work with one of their own because of the cultural belief that they share a common vision (Reiche & Harzing, 2009). For a subsidiary in China, therefore, a Wal-Mart assignment would be more successful if an executive management expatriate is well-prepared to learn the new culture, and is working with more host country than home country employees.
Assignment Length: home country employees ought to be the majority if an assignment is due to have a long presence in a host country because of the continued development of trust relationships (Reiche & Harzing, 2009).
Selection Practices: the parent country effect could be outdone by the host country's laws and regulations, especially if the host country requires that MNCs operating within their jurisdictions include a certain threshold of host country employees in their operations (Reiche & Harzing, 2009).
Staff Availability and Skill Set: if a host country lacks qualified personnel to take up work positions in MNCs, the company could bring in more workers from the parent, or third party countries. This is, however, still subject to the host country's legislation, which could, in such situations, force the company to train home country workers (Reiche & Harzing, 2009).
Benefits Offered
Being the largest retailer in the world, Wal-Mart is expected to offer a highly attractive benefits package to its employees.
Well-Being Benefits: the well-being benefits that the company offers include illness protection, accident insurance, fully-covered insurance, disability insurance, vision and dental plan, and consumer-directed health plans such as HRA and HSA (Wal-Mart, 2014).
Financial Benefits:...
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