International Recruitment and Selection Policies and Practices

This chapter discusses international staffing policies and practices of South Korean MNEs in China, including international staffing approaches, reasons for adopting the staffing approaches, recruitment and selection procedures and criteria, and repatriation management. The international recruitment and selection policies and practices that South Korean MNEs employed in China can be characterized as polycentric in international staffing, ‘one-way selection’, localized HCN recruitment and selection, and a lack of emphasis on cultural adjustment and career development in expatriation and repatriation management. These characteristics can, to a great extent, be explained by the existing IHRM models which argue that IHRM practices are influenced by host-contextual and firm-specific factors.

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1. School of Management, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia Haiying Kang
2. Shenzhen Audencia Business School (SABS), Shenzhen University, Shenzhen, China Jie Shen

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