Molex Case Study

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Case Study: Molex February 27, 2010 . As a leading supplier of electronic components in the global marketplace, Molex has been located in Chicago, Illinois for the past 70 years. In the early 1970s, Molex opened its first overseas plant in Japan and Ireland to coordinate exporting of goods and services. Since then, the company has roughly 50 manufacturing plants worldwide and about 33% are located in the United States. The company’s success has been related to their strategy of focusing on low costs, customer service, and mass production of standardized products sold worldwide. The key goal has been their ability to share knowledge across different cultures and adapt. Molex pursues an international strategy as a company from the production perspective. They have accomplished this by producing their product at home for a number of years in the United States and then selling internationally. The electronic components they manufacture, serve a universal need across countries. Offices are located throughout the world to serve major geographic regions locally. Molex has a team of highly skilled experts that are focused on the design, development and distribution of innovative product solution products to the world. The institution pursues a localization strategy from a human resources view. They hire experienced Human Resource Managers from other companies in which it operates to gain an advantage locally. Local professionals are hired in these countries because they have knowledge of the laws, the language, and know how to recruit the right people in that country. This provides Molex the ability to customize staffing policies for employees of a certain location to be able to better serve their customers internationally and locally. Molex uses staffing as a tool for developing and promoting the desired culture of the firm. That culture is to hire foreign
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