Maria, the vice president of sales for an international organization, believes that employees in her foreign offices understand best how to handle the personnel and practices in their offices. So when the corporate HR manager approached Maria about reprimanding Robert, a native Parisian who is the Paris office manager, for not doing things according to corporate policy, Maria backed Robert and said, "I believe that the home office should leave Robert alone because he best understands the local culture." Maria is a(n) ___ manager.
a) global
b) polycentric
c) parochial
d) native
e) ethnocentric

Respuesta :

Answer: (B) Polycentric

Explanation:

  A polycentric manager is refers to the approach or the method in the global marketing that basically helps the organization for spread about their products and the services among the different countries.

The main objective of the polycentric approach that it helps in managing the different types of operations and services in the business.

According to the given question, maria is the vice president in an organization for the international sales process and she handle all the practices held in their office. Therefore, Maria is refers as a polycentric manger.