transition manager roles 79–82
transition team (M&A) 104–6
transnational companies 52, 54, 55,
56–7, 58, 59
transnational organizational model 48
transnational strategy 38, 41, 52, 53
transnationality index 395uncertainty avoidance 144–5, 148, 156–7
United Kingdom (UK) 20
organizational structure 123–4,
125–6, 130
vsJapan 124–5
women 361, 363, 364
see alsoEurope (EU); entries beginning
Anglo-American
United States (US) 20, 122
employment practices transfer 396,
397, 398, 404–6
HRM model 172–3
vsEurope 173–9
international organizational model 46–7
‘job-hopping’ 346
perspectives on trade unionism
176–8, 419–20
Silicon Valley, California 15
vsTaiwan 161
women 363–4, 366, 369–70, 371
see also entries beginningAnglo-American
‘universal problems’ 150, 156
universalism vsparticularism 151, 153
unskilled Western labour force 25, 26–7value changes 121
value orientation 157–9, 160
value rationality 121
value systems 148–9, 234–5values 149 , 156
compensation system 311–12
see alsoculture
Vietnam 211–15
virtual international assignments 325–7
voice and exit 418–20, 421–2, 423wages, EU 439–41
welfare regime 415–16, 425, 427
Western labour force, unskilled 25, 26–7
Western perspectives seedeveloping–
developed world paradigm; entries
beginningAnglo-American
women
advantages for 376–8
approaches to increasing diversity 372–3
barriers 360–1
career systems 360–1, 364–6
family characteristics 367–9
home country selection systems 373–4
host nationals’ attitudes 369–72
managerial/leadership behaviour 362–4
motivation 361–2, 366
organizational processes 372–5
personality traits 366–7
supervisor–subordinate relationships 373
world (geocentric) orientation 59, 60 ,
61, 252, 312–13, 473
World Investment Report (2001) 395
worldwide functional management 80–1
worldwide learning 37, 50–1
worldwide product structure 44Yin and Yang 198, 200zero-sum nationalism 27Subject Index 4993122-Sub-Index.qxd 10/29/03 2:32 PM Page 499