Exam 16: Hiring and Managing Employees

In ethnocentric staffing,operations outside the home country are managed by individuals from the host country.

Which of the following statements is true of ethnocentric staffing?

The major disadvantage of a geocentric staffing policy is its potential for ________.

The process of recruitment involves screening and hiring the best-qualified applicants with the greatest performance potential.

Which of the following is a major drawback of ethnocentric staffing?

In ________,operations outside the home country are managed by individuals from the host country.

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. -The approach recommended by Valerie is called ________.

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?

Centralizing the decisions that directly impact workers' lives contribute to better labor-management relations.

Sensitivity training constitutes the most basic level of cultural training for managers on international assignments.

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

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. -An important advantage of the staffing policy recommended by Valerie is that it ________.

The psychological process of readapting to one's home culture is seldom difficult for expatriates who have successfully adapted to new cultures.

A company that hires the best-qualified individuals,regardless of nationality,to manage foreign operations is utilizing a ________ approach.

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

What factors influence the wages of nonmanagerial workers?

Citizens who are working and living in their home country are called expatriates.

Citizens of one country who are living and working in another are called ________.

An ethnocentric staffing strategy can facilitate the transfer of special know-how to branch operations.

Polycentric staffing places managerial responsibility in the hands of people intimately familiar with the local business environment.