Exam 9: Staffing, Training, and Compensation for Global Operations

The ________ is often used to equalize the standard of living between the host country and the home country, and to add some compensation for inconvenience or qualitative loss.

Briefly discuss the interdependence of strategy, structure, and staffing.

Which of the following terms is increasingly replacing the term "expatriate" due to the global staffing approach?

What are the advantages of the global staffing approach?

A(n)________ policy is likely to be used where a company notes the inadequacy of local managerial skills and determines a high need to maintain close communication and coordination with headquarters.

Expatriate failure, defined in broad terms, refers to the ________.

Enculturation refers to a state of disorientation and anxiety about not knowing how to behave in an unfamiliar culture.

The goal of cross-cultural training is to ease the expatriate's adjustment to the new environment by reducing ________.

Felix Department Store has over 900 stores in the United States and over 300 stores in Mexico and Canada.Felix has been particularly successful in Mexico, and the firm's executives believe Felix should expand into other Latin American countries.As a result, plans are underway for the construction of a new Felix store in Managua, Nicaragua.The construction, once started, is expected to be completed within a year, so staff selection needs to begin soon.Felix's executives are considering the idea of using parent-country nationals to manage the new store in Nicaragua.Which of the following, if true, best supports the argument that parent-country nationals should manage the Felix store in Managua, Nicaragua?

________ staffing approach usually results in a higher level of authority and decision making at headquarters compared to the polycentric approach.

Kelly Roberts, an American, is a senior manager at her firm's headquarters in New York.Kelly is a(n)________.

In addition to the global war for talent, there are considerable strategic competitive challenges for firms.Which of the following is one such challenge?

Joan Kerry, an American national, worked as a senior manager in her firm's headquarters in New Jersey.When her firm opened a new office in San Francisco, she was transferred to California.Soon, she started feeling like an immigrant in her own country owing to the differences in attitudes and lifestyle between New Jersey and California.Joan is most likely experiencing ________.

In which of the following staffing approaches, are the best managers recruited from within or outside of the company, regardless of nationality?

Which of the following is the final stage of the IHRM process that is used to maximize the effectiveness of expatriate assignments?

One disadvantage of a polycentric staffing policy is the difficulty of coordinating activities and goals between the subsidiary and the parent company, including the potentially conflicting loyalties of the local manager.

Which of the following is a factor that facilitates integration of expatriate staff with local staff?

Companies using a polycentric staffing approach, avoid using parent-country nationals to fill in key managerial positions.

A global staffing policy ________.

Which of the following will most likely produce a specific mix of parent-country nationals, home-country nationals, and third-country nationals, according to the needs of the company?