allowances
Employee compensation payments added to base salaries because of higher expenses encountered when living abroad
bonuses
Expatriate employee compensation payments in addition to base salaries and allowances because of hardship, inconvenience, or danger
compensation packages
For expatriate employees, packages that can incorporate many types of payments or reimbursements and must take into consideration exchange rates and inflation
ethnocentric
As used here, related to hiring and promoting employees on the basis of the parent company�s home country frame of reference
expatriate
A person living outside his or her country of citizenship
geocentric
As used here, related to hiring and promoting employees on the basis of ability and experience without considering race or citizenship
global mind-set
A mind-set that combines an openness to and an awareness of diversity across markets and cultures with a propensity and ability to synthesize across this diversity
home-country national
Same as parent-country national
host-country national (HCN)
Employee who is a citizen of the nation in which the subsidiary is operating, which is different from the parent company�s home nation
host-country national (HCN)
Employee who is a citizen of the nation in which the subsidiary is operating, which is different from the parent company�s home nation
international status
Entitles the expatriate employee to all the allowances and bonuses applicable to the place of residence and employment
language trap
A situation in which a person doing international business can speak only his or her home language
parent-country national (PCNs)
Employee who is a citizen of the nation in which the parent company is headquartered; also called home country national
polycentric
As used here, related to hiring and promoting employees on the basis of the specific local context in which the subsidiary operates
regiocentric
As used here, related to hiring and promoting employees on the basis of the specific regional context in which the subsidiary operates
third-country national (TCN)
Employee who is a citizen of neither the parent company nation nor the host country