Exam 19: International Human Resource Management and Labor Relations

In the ________ stage of acculturation, the new culture seems exciting and interesting.

Group-oriented cultures emphasize training and motivating the group and place less emphasis on individual efforts.

Firms using a(n) ________ primarily use parent country nationals to staff higher-level foreign positions.

Smith Enterprises seeks to entice one of its star managers to move to Iraq to oversee its negotiations for Iraqi oil. The firm will likely need to offer a ________ to a manager's base salary.

Which term refers to instruction directed at enhancing specific job-related skills and abilities?

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

In a geocentric staffing model, the firm will prefer host country nationals to either parent country nationals or third country nationals.

How can a firm increase the potential for managers to be successful at their foreign assignments?

Which of the following is a EU policy that promotes common job-related benefits and working conditions throughout the EU?

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

The initial step in the international human resource management process is identifying training and development needs.

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

Japanese firms have a tendency to ________.

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

Define repatriation.

Approximately 25% of all repatriated employees leave their employer within one year of returning home.

What are the three groups from which international firms can hire?

Mercedes hired managers from the local community as operations managers in its Kentucky plant. Mercedes used ________.

Which type of manager would most likely be employed to promote a global outlook through the firm's operations?

Why do international HR managers most likely need to adjust hiring, firing, and training methods on a country-by-country basis?