Geodyne, a United States-based player in the energy business is clear-cut in its human resources policy with regard to international expansion. While U.S. nationals staff key positions at its Orlando, Florida headquarters, it recruits locals to manage subsidiaries in each country that it goes into. As a result of this, in 2016, Geodyne found that of the company's total staff of 1240, nearly 72% were newly-hired managers to work in the company's foreign subsidiaries, forming a gap between host-country managers and parent-country managers. What is Geodyne's staffing policy?

Geodyne, a United States-based player in the energy business is clear-cut in its human resources policy with regard to international expansion. While U.S. nationals staff key positions at its Orlando, Florida headquarters, it recruits locals to manage subsidiaries in each country that it goes into. As a result of this, in 2016, Geodyne found that of the company's total staff of 1240, nearly 72% were newly-hired managers to work in the company's foreign subsidiaries, forming a gap between host-country managers and parent-country managers. What is Geodyne's staffing policy?

Geodyne, a United States-based player in the energy business is clear-cut in its human resources policy with regard to international expansion. While U.S. nationals staff key positions at its Orlando, Florida headquarters, it recruits locals to manage subsidiaries in each country that it goes into. As a result of this, in 2016, Geodyne found that of the company's total staff of 1240, nearly 72% were newly-hired managers to work in the company's foreign subsidiaries, forming a gap between host-country managers and parent-country managers. What is Geodyne's staffing policy?



A. global


B. geocentric


C. polycentric


D. ethnocentric


E. transnational



Answer: C. polycentric


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