Exam 15: International Human Resources Management

One reason companies hire local citizens to work in their international facilities is that it is generally less costly than relocating expatriates.

ShamRoth's approach to international business is to try to achieve both local responsiveness and global efficiency. ShamRoth can best be characterized as a(n) __________ corporation.

Companies tend to continue to use expatriates only when a specific skillset is needed or when individuals in the host country require development.

A company has three basic sources to use when staffing its foreign operation. Name the three sources of overseas managers and state the advantages and disadvantages of each.

The failure of expatriate assignments is most often due to lack of technical and managerial ability.

In recent years, there has also been a trend to send expatriates on longer, less project-based assignments.

Guest workers

Joe has a habit of scratching his head when he is thinking. While working in Japan, his colleagues tended to avoid him. He did not know why, because he did not realize that in Japan, scratching the head is a sign of

Melanie Fitzpatrick is an American expatriate assigned to England. During a business meeting in London with important local customers, one customer tells her that he wants to "table" the discussion on price. He probably means that

A task force has been created at KyoTek to explore the possibility of entering into various international markets. As part of this team, Louise is responsible for analyzing the stability of governments and laws, especially related to property rights, in the targeted regions. Louise is researching __________ factors.

Which of the following is a major reason for failure among expatriates?

Steve is an American. He works for a U.S. company at its facilities in Great Britain. Steve is considered a third-country national.

According to cross-cultural studies, __________ is more likely to encourage competition among employees.

Domestic managers may not be able to understand an expatriate's experience.

LightWays is a U.S. firm that has subsidiaries that operate as fully autonomous units in other countries, making LightWays a multidomestic corporation.

When an American corporation hires an employee from Italy to work in its office in India, this employee is referred to as a(n)

For most companies, the transnational form represents an ideal, rather than a reality.

LightWays hires natives of the host country to manage its international facilities as much as possible. These workers are known as host country nationals.

Host-based pay is compensation that is equivalent to that earned by employees in the country where the expatriate is assigned, and companies use this method because it is less costly than other methods.

A domestic firm that has leveraged its existing capabilities to penetrate overseas markets is a(n) __________ corporation.