Answer the following statements true (T) or false (F)

Question

1. Managers who take the view that native managers in foreign offices best understand native personnel and practices, and so the home office should leave them alone, are called polycentric managers. 
2. Geocentric policies have been linked to recruiting difficulties and high turnover. 
3. Polycentric managers accept that there are differences and similarities between home and foreign personnel and practices and that they should use whatever techniques are most effective. 
4. Ethnocentrism is a form of parochialism. 

Answer 1

1. TRUE
Polycentric managers take the view that native managers in the foreign offices best understand native personnel and practices, and so the home office should leave them alone.
2. FALSE
Ethnocentrism, rather than geocentrism, can be bad for business. A survey of 918 companies with home offices in the United States, Japan, and Europe found that ethnocentric policies were linked to such problems as recruiting difficulties, high turnover rates, and lawsuits over personnel policies.
3. FALSE
Geocentric managers accept that there are differences and similarities between home and foreign personnel and practices and that they should use whatever techniques are most effective.
4. TRUE
Ethnocentrism might also be called parochialism, which is a narrow view in which people see things solely through their own perspective.