Exam 15: International Human Resources Management

The internationalization of HRM has grown at a faster pace than the internationalization of Canadian corporations.

General Motors, headquartered in the United States, has operations in many parts of the world. Jimmy Lee, an IT manager from its Canadian operations, has been posted to India to oversee a start-up operation. What type of employee is Jimmy?

Anna works as a compensation manager for IDL Inc., a multinational firm located in British Columbia. She has been posted to Hong Kong on an assignment. What type of employee is Anna?

In appraising the performance of an employee on an international assignment, many appraisers resort to using criteria that are easy to measure rather than criteria that capture all responsibilities.

Production manager Jim McIntyre has been successful in his Canadian assignment using a participative management style. If he uses this same style in some other countries, he may be regarded as an incompetent manager.

Performance evaluations of expatriates should occur in both the home and the host countries.

Which of the following is one of the most common problems that occur with performance appraisals of international assignees?

English is almost universally accepted as the language for international business.

Multinational corporations tend to use different kinds of external recruitment sources than are used in their home countries.

Different cultural environments require different organizational behaviours.

You are offered a foreign assignment to an Asian country by an employer you are interviewing with. What are the key questions about that employer you should ask before you accept the overseas post?

According to cross-cultural studies, nations tend to cluster according to similarities in all of the following cultural dimensions EXCEPT which one?

If you were concerned about maximizing your career benefits with a foreign assignment, which of the following questions would be the most important to ask?

In collectivist societies such as Japan and Taiwan, which of the following is a key focus of the pay system?

If you were developing a performance appraisal system for individuals on international assignments, it would be best to base individuals' appraisals on information from which of the following?

Which of the following is the key purpose of repatriation?

A Canadian firm with fully autonomous operating units in Korea, Spain, and Sweden would be classified as a multinational corporation.

A global HR information system facilitates coordination between world units; however, there are many important factors to ensure effective implementation.

Expatriates should not be expected to evaluate their own performance.

Subsidiaries of multinational corporations are usually run as independent companies.