GLOBAL STAFFING IMPLEMENTATIONS IN THE CHINESE MNCS

Abstract

The paper is aiming to explore the global staffing implementations within the background of globalization and localization in multinational corporations (MNCs) in Mainland China. With massive foreign direct investments (FDI) flowing into China and the increasingly competitions in the international and domestic markets, local human capital for MNCs has become prevalent and important as their human resource strategies. A qualitative approach was chosen to conduct interviews with core employees in a Japanese subsidiary and headhunters who work for MNCs. Theoretically the thesis is framed by the concept of embeddendess. Different types of embeddedbess are considered as factors explaining the choice of strategies by MCNs’. Three considerations were addressed: cost, development and cultural considerations. They are the major factors for MNCs to be localized and they tend to combine the best practice, such as trainings, personal tutoring and the best fit, as like the local understanding of employees to make the local human resource more valuable and effective.