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16 Cards in this Set
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labor union |
a formal organization representing a group or groups of employees |
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Offshoring |
involves the process of transferring an organizational function to another country whether outsourced or not |
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expatriates |
employees who are working in countries other than their native countries |
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Training |
providing employees with skills specific to the job they are going to be doing |
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Development |
preparing employees for new future assignments or higher level positions |
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collective bargaining agreements |
a contract comprehensively setting forth employee terms and conditions of employment at a given workplace or group of workplaces |
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Performance appraisal |
the process of assessing employee performance |
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third country nationals |
employees from a new parent or host country who are being employed in a given foreign country |
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expatriate failure |
when an expatriate does not complete his or her full expatriate assignment |
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Co-determination |
employee representation on corporate boards of directors |
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host country nationals |
workers already living in the foreign or host country where the parent company is opening operation |
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parent country nationals |
employees from the home countries who are sent to work for their companies overseas |
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multi-employer bargaining |
negotiations in which a number of employers jointly bargain with a given labor union |
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Outsourcing |
the process of a company subcontracting a certain production function to a third party |
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balance sheet approach |
keeping an employee on the home country’s salary structure and also providing additional allowances |
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Repatriation |
process that takes place when the expatriate employee returns home |