| allowances | Employee compensation payments added to base salaries because of higher expenses encountered when living abroad
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| bonuses | Expatriate employee compensation payments in addition to base salaries and allowances because of hardship, inconvenience, or danger
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| compensation packages | For expatriate employees, packages that can incorporate many types of payments or reimbursements and must take into consideration exchange rates and inflation
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| ethnocentric | As used here, related to hiring and promoting employees on the basis of the parent company's home country frame of reference
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| expatriate | A person living outside his or her country of citizenship
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| geocentric | As used here, related to hiring and promoting employees on the basis of ability and experience without considering race or citizenship
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| global mind-set | A mind-set that combines an openness to and an awareness of diversity across markets and cultures with a propensity and ability to synthesize across this diversity
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| home country national | Same as parent country national
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| host country national (HCN) | Employee who is a citizen of the nation in which the subsidiary is operating, which is different from the parent company's home nation
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| international status | Entitles the expatriate employee to all the allowances and bonuses applicable to the place of residence and employment
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| language trap | A situation in which a person doing international business can speak only his or her home language
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| parent country national (PCN) | Employee who is a citizen of the nation in which the parent company is headquartered; also called home country national
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| polycentric | As used here, related to hiring and promoting employees on the basis of the specific local context in which the subsidiary operates
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| regiocentric | As used here, related to hiring and promoting employees on the basis of the specific regional context in which the subsidiary operates
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| third country national (TCN) | Employee who is a citizen of neither the parent company nation nor the host country
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