Exam 16: Hiring and Managing Employees

Scenario: Swingset International Jerome Johnston, the human resource manager at the U.S.-based Swingset International, is developing an international staffing policy for the company. Jerome personally believes Swingset should send managers from the United States to manage each subsidiary. But the CEO of the company, Valerie Vermont, believes subsidiary operations ought to be managed by individuals from the host country. -A major drawback of the staffing policy recommended by Valerie is ________.

________ is a psychological phenomenon that may lead to feelings of fear,helplessness,irritability,and disorientation.

Managers who are asked to go into a particularly unstable country or one with a very low standard of living often receive a bonus called ________.

Reverse culture shock is the trouble expatriates face while adjusting to a new environment in which they find themselves.

Which of the following terms is defined as the process of identifying and attracting a qualified pool of applicants for vacant positions?

Which of the following training approaches involve employees visiting another culture,walking the streets of its cities and villages,and becoming absorbed by the culture for a short time?

An expatriate manager who returns after a few years from an overseas assignment to find that there is no position for him in his home country office experiences a(n)________.

Large international companies tend to make high-level labor decisions at the home office because ________.

Compare and contrast the methods of cultural training.Is any single method better than all the others?

Which of the following is the first phase of human resource planning?

A(n)________ manager champions the ways of foreign markets as comparable,if not more enlightened,than the practices of his or her parent company and home nation.

Codetermination allows labor representatives to participate in high-level company meetings.

Reverse culture shock is much milder than the initial culture shock an expatriate faces.

What factors influence the wages of non-managerial workers?

Scenario: You're Hired! Erica Els has just been promoted as vice president of human resources for Hudson Foods, a U.S.-based international frozen food corporation. Erica's first task is to staff the company's European subsidiary. -The new subsidiary's production facilities will employ approximately 100 full-time nonmanagerial workers.Who among the following will Erica most likely recruit to fill these positions?

The positive or negative condition of relations between employers and their workers is referred to as ________.

Hyundai tends to follow an ethnocentric staffing model.From which group will it most likely hire for upper-level management positions?

The process of forecasting both a company's human resource needs and its supply is called ________.

The most common inducement that companies offer managers to accept international postings is ________.

Which of the following is most likely to occur in the honeymoon stage of culture shock?