Cultural assimilation teaches the culture's values, attitudes, manners, and customs. So-called guerrilla linguistics, which involves learning some phrases in the local language, is often used at this stage. It also typically includes role-play exercises where the trainee responds to a specific situation to be evaluated by a team of judges. This method is often used when someone is given little notice of a short stay abroad and wishes to take a crash course in social and business etiquette and communication."

Sensitivity training teaches people to be considerate and understanding of other people's feelings and emotions. It gets the trainee "under the skin" of the local people.

Respond to the following:

Discuss the special and important skills any employee would need in order to be considered as an employee for a large corporation. Include training and development that follows once the employee is hired and the international staffing policy, including Ethnocentric and Polycentric staffing.

The skills which are special and important which the employees are pursued in order to be a part of large corporation are dependent on the need of the corporation. Core competencies of the employees also take an important matter in the corporation. All of these skills make the value of employees and helps firm to be competitive in nature. Corporation often place the employees on star category whose performances are upgraded and competitive.

Under the international staffing policies, an employee is meant to be hired after the adequate provisions of training program which gives peculiar picture of the work to an employee and this training and induction program is considered as a mandatory program. These policies are also dependent on the rules and regulations provided by the government authorities, capacity of an organization and so on.

Whereas the firms which have their respective offices in the foreign countries, have to make their choices in context of selection of ethnocentric and polycentric staffing policies. Ethnocentric is a method in staffing where the hiring is done from the country where the parent company belongs to. And in polycentric staffing, hiring is done from the host country.