Chapter 17 - Personal selling and sales management. What you should learn from chapter 17: The role of interpersonal selling in international marketing, the considerations in designing an international sales force, the steps to recruiting three types of international salespeople, selection criteria for international sales and marketing positions,...
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Philip R. Cateora, Mary C. Gilly, and John L. Graham
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• Recruiting marketing and sales personnel
• Selecting sales and marketing personnel
• Training for international marketing
• Motivating sales personnel
• Designing compensation systems
• Evaluating and controlling sales representatives
• Preparing U.S. personnel for foreign assignments
• Developing cultural awareness
• The changing profile of the global manager
• Foreignlanguage skills
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companies is the sales force
– Numbers are declining
– Important for highly technical or involved products
– High cost
– Cultural and legal barriers
– Limited number of highcaliber personnel willing to live abroad
– Manage operations in other countries but don’t live there
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– Transcend both cultural and legal barriers
– Familiar with distribution systems and referral
networks
– Headquarters personnel may ignore their advice
– Lack of availability
– Sales positions viewed negatively
– Expatriates working for a foreign company
– Work restrictions
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• Management must define precisely what is expected of people
• Prime requisites
– Maturity
– Emotional stability
– Breadth of knowledge
– Positive outlook
– Flexibility
– Cultural empathy
– Energetic and enjoy travel
• Mistakes can be costly
• A manager’s culture affects personnel decisions
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• The nature of the training program depends on:
market
• Continual training is important in foreign
markets
• Companies should provide homeoffice personnel with crosscultural training
• The Internet now makes some kinds of sales
training much more efficient
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in Terms of Their Importance
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Exhibit 17.3
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• Fringe benefits
• Compensations comparisons between the home office and abroad
• Shortterm assignment compensation
• Using a compensation program to recruit,
develop, motivate, or retain personnel
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• In the U.S., emphasis is placed on individual
performance; it can easily be measured by sales revenues generated
• In many countries evaluation is more complex where teamwork is favored over individual effort
• In the U.S., the primary tool used by sales
managers is the incentive system
• In other countries, corporate control and
frequent interactions with peers and supervisors are the means of motivation and control
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• Cost of foreign assignments
salary
before completing the scheduled assignment
• The planning process
abroad
returning home
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• Concerns for career
advancement
• Concerns for family
• Special compensations packages deal with
concerns
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Trang 12Reducing the Rate of Early Returns
• Evaluation of an employee’s family
adjustment problems with children or marital
discord
• Crosscultural training for families as well as the employee
• Local ombudsmen
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• Commit to reassigning expatriates to meaningful positions
• Create a mentor program
• Offer a written job guarantee stating what
company is obligated to do for returning
expatriate
• Keep the expatriate in touch with headquarters through periodic briefings and headquarter visits
• Prepare the expatriate and family for repatriation once a return date is set
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for seniorlevel executive talent to their home
countries
– It is important to have international assignments early
in
a person’s career
– International training is an integral part of their entry level development programs
experience an integrated part of a successful
corporate career
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understanding and business relationships
the expatriate must be at least conversational in the host language
• Many companies are making stronger efforts to recruit people who are bilingual or multilingual
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