Exam 16: Hiring and Managing Employees

Companies use polycentric staffing to re-create local operations in the image of home-country operations.

The process of staffing a company and ensuring employees are as productive as possible is called human resource management.

Which of the following statements is true of geocentric staffing?

Scenario: Gem Jewels Gem Jewels recently established a number of subsidiaries in various foreign countries aiming to build high levels of international business involvement in the coming years.Cultural training has to be given by the company to home-country managers assigned to work in the new subsidiaries. -To teach its employees the values,attitudes,manners,and customs of the host-country culture,Gem Jewels should offer ________.

Which of the following is a reason why there are only a few managers who are ready and willing to go to foreign branches on short notice?

Planning for decruitment normally occurs when a company ________.

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

________ teaches an expatriate a culture's values,attitudes,manners,and customs.

A geocentric staffing policy is generally reserved for ________.

Differentiate between the three types of staffing policies used by international companies.What are the advantages of each?

The compensation of nonmanagerial workers is strongly influenced by increased cross-border business investment.

A(n)________ policy would give the foreign units of a company a degree of autonomy in decision-making.

The major drawback of polycentric staffing is the potential to ________.

Which of the following approaches to cultural training gets a trainee "under the skin" of the local people?

The process of identifying and attracting a qualified pool of applicants for vacant positions is called selection.

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. -One challenge facing Hudson Foods as it expands into Europe is getting through all the bureaucratic and legal regulations surrounding the food industry.Erica plans to hire a manager to ensure that this challenge is overcome.Who among the following will Erica most likely recruit for this position?

Scenario: Mr.Yoshimura goes to Tennessee Mr.Yoshimura,vice president of quality control at Oshimura Yarn,has recently been assigned to a three-year project at the company's Tennessee plant.Mr.Yoshimura has brought his wife and his three daughters with him from Yokohama to Tennessee. -Mr.Yoshimura's daughters are extremely unhappy and have been complaining every night about their lifestyle in the United States.They insist on returning to Japan.If Mr.Yoshimura gives in to his family members' pleas and decides to return home,which of the following will most likely be true about his experience?

To speed up the process of getting government approval for local operations,companies must hire home country nationals.

Which of the following international assignment preparation methods involves a trainee feeling the stresses inherent in living in the culture?

Which of the following constitutes the most basic level of training to prepare managers for international assignments?