Monique is a manager at a firm based in Chicago.She has recently been selected to manage the firm's Singapore office along with three other managers from the Chicago office.The firm hopes that the American managers will effectively represent the views of the home office and will link the Singapore office to the Chicago office.Which type of staffing approach is most likely being used by Monique's employer?
A) polycentric
B) regiocentric
C) ethnocentric
D) geocentric

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C)With ethnocentric staffing,companies primarily hire expatriates to staff higher-level foreign positions.This strategy assumes that home-office perspectives and issues should take precedence over local perspectives and issues and that expatriates will be more effective in representing the views of the home office.

Monique Is a Manager at a Firm Based in Chicago