Exam 19: International Human Resource Management and Labor Relations

What is most important in staffing managerial employees?

Barton Manufacturing is considering the idea of capitalizing on inexpensive labor in Mexico by moving the firm's production facilities from Detroit to Mexico City. The firm manufactures complex circuit boards. To ensure high productivity, Barton will most likely need to invest heavily in which of the following?

What is a common source of recruits for international managers? Why do MNCs typically hire host country nationals for nonmanagerial positions?

European MNCs are more likely to follow an ethnocentric approach to staffing than either Japanese or U.S. firms.

Maria, an HR manager at PolyTech, an MNE based in Canada, has been given the task of determining the best candidates for a managerial position at the firm's Tokyo facility. Which tool would help Maria the most in this task?

PDF Enterprises, an MNE, uses a centralized approach to management, so its international managers will most likely be ________.

Expatriate managers generally receive differential compensation to make up for dramatic differences in ________.

Which of the following is a phase in the process of acculturation?

Define repatriation.

Standardized basic training methods tend to be less expensive than customized ones.

The ability of the family to adapt plays a relatively minor role in expatriate failure.

Companies that view themselves as multidomestic are more likely to ________.

Having the freedom to choose whether to accept or reject an expatriate assignment increases the likelihood a manager will be successful at the assignment.

For years, some foreign firms hesitated to send women managers on foreign assignments to countries, such as ________, because the firms assumed the women would not be accepted in the culture that frowned on women working outside the home.

The compensation package offered to a host country national is equivalent to that offered to an expatriate manager for a position of roughly equal responsibility and power.

If a firm is at the export department stage of internationalization, its manager is likely to be a host country national.

________ refers to bringing a manager back home after a foreign assignment has been completed.

________ is the early return of an expatriate manager to the home country because of an inability to perform in the overseas assignment.

What is the primary reason for high expatriate turnover rates among U.S. firms?

What is a tax equalization system?