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Question 21

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An important advantage of polycentric staffing is that it ________.

A) re-creates local operations in the image of home-country operations
B) eliminates the high cost of relocating expatriate managers and their families
C) helps a company develop global managers who can adjust easily to any business environment
D) employs managers from home who will look out for the company's interests

E) A) and B)
F) A) and C)

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________ is the process of staffing a company and ensuring that employees are as productive as possible.

A) Business process reengineering
B) Human resource management
C) Organizational diagnostics
D) Industrial relations

E) A) and B)
F) A) and C)

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Compare and contrast the methods of cultural training.Is any single method better than all the others?

Which of the following is most likely to occur in the honeymoon stage of culture shock?

Explain the advantages and disadvantages of a geocentric staffing policy,and discuss the effects of culture shock when assigning an employee to work in another country.

The process of forecasting both a company's human resource needs and its supply is called ________.

Which of the following offers insight into a host country's political,legal,economic,and social institutions as a way of enhancing environmental briefings?

Which of the following methods of cultural training involves the use of guerilla linguistics?

The process of staffing a company and ensuring employees are as productive as possible is called human resource management.

Which of the following terms is defined as the process of identifying and attracting a qualified pool of applicants for vacant positions?

Scenario: Swingset International Jerome Johnston,the human resource manager at the U.S.-based Swingset International,is developing an international staffing policy for the company.Jerome personally believes Swingset should send managers from the United States to manage each subsidiary.But the CEO of the company,Valerie Vermont,believes subsidiary operations ought to be managed by individuals from the host country. -An important advantage of the staffing policy recommended by Valerie is that it ________.

Scenario: Swingset International Jerome Johnston,the human resource manager at the U.S.-based Swingset International,is developing an international staffing policy for the company.Jerome personally believes Swingset should send managers from the United States to manage each subsidiary.But the CEO of the company,Valerie Vermont,believes subsidiary operations ought to be managed by individuals from the host country. -A major drawback of the staffing policy recommended by Valerie is ________.

A manager could most likely gain information on a local area's housing,health care,transportation,schools,and climate by participating in ________.

Which of the following is true of employee compensation in international companies?

Scenario: Gem Jewels Gem Jewels recently established a number of subsidiaries in various foreign countries aiming to build high levels of international business involvement in the coming years.Cultural training has to be given by the company to home-country managers assigned to work in the new subsidiaries. -The most basic level of training that can be given to the managers is ________.

Expatriate failure refers to an employee's early return from an international assignment because of inadequate job performance.

What challenges do international labor unions face as they try to accomplish their objectives?

Describe the differences between human resource management in a domestic setting and an international setting,and explain the three phases of human resources planning.

Which of the following statements is true of geocentric staffing?

Individuals from the home country manage operations outside the home country in ________ staffing.