 In this topic, we are going to discuss about the advantages and disadvantages of hiring parent country nationals for your international operations. There are various different advantages of hiring parent country nationals and there are certain disadvantages as well. So when you hire parent country nationals, the advantages include organizational control and coordination which is maintained and facilitated so your parent country nationals if they go to your foreign subsidiaries are being managed by the parent country nationals it would lead to greater coordination and control between the headquarters and the foreign subsidiary. Another advantage of this is that promising managers they are given international experience. So if you are managing a multinational organization and people from your headquarters they have to be groomed for higher positions that also includes international exposure if you have got international operations. So in order to do that you need to train and prepare and give international exposure to your own managers from your parent country so that they can have an international mindset and an international perspective for managing your multinational enterprise. So the advantage of managing of staffing parent country nationals is that promising managers who can be promoted to the upper levels of the organization they are given international experience then parent country nationals may be the best people for the job because of the special skill and experiences. So if your organization has got a specific strategic objective and they have certain kind of vision set for them then parent country nationals are those people who really know that and they are somebody who really work for that particular purpose and then because the organization it has emerged from that particular country it is because of certain kind of competitive advantage of the availability of human capital and other resources that that firm has emerged from that particular location so it is possible that parent country nationals could be the best people to forward the interest of that organization be it be working in anywhere in the world. Then another advantage is that the assurance that subsidiary will comply with the multinational objectives so when you appoint parent country nationals to manage the foreign subsidiary you are assured you can rest assured you can be at peace that the objectives of the multinational they will be met and the host country will not drive the organization towards its own specific particular objectives which sometimes may be clashing and conflicting with the overall objectives of the multinational. So this assurance is an advantage of hiring parent country nationals. And let's take a look at the disadvantages of parent country nationals number one is that the promotional opportunities for the host country nationals that becomes really limited because you are hiring and giving positions top level positions in yours foreign subsidiary to people from the parent country that means that the promotional opportunities for home country nationals that becomes limited. Then another disadvantage is that adaptation to the host country that may take a long time which could incur extra cost for the organization. Then another disadvantage is that the parent country nationals they may impose an inappropriate style from the headquarters. So if there is a stark difference from the culture and the parent country nationals definitely would be coming with that mindset of their own culture and if they are not properly given the awareness training for the new culture it is possible that they would then they would apply the inappropriate management style in that host country and that may lead to poor decision making and lack of coordination within that local subsidiary. Then another disadvantage is that the compensation of parent country nationals and host country nationals that may differ at that may lead to a certain level of feeling of injustice and unfairness among the host country nationals. So these are a few advantages and disadvantages of hiring parent country nationals in subsidiary foreign operations.