Exam 16: Hiring and Managing Employees

Which of the following statements is true of ethnocentric staffing?

In geocentric staffing,operations outside the home country are managed by the best-qualified individuals,regardless of their nationality.

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

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

Discuss the disadvantages of an ethnocentric staffing policy.How do bonuses,tax incentives,and employee expectations contribute to high personnel costs?

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 major drawback of polycentric staffing is the potential to ________.

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

Which of the following trains managers to be considerate and understanding of other people's feelings and emotions?

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

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

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 lower-level position Erica must fill requires the employee to be familiar with the new market and its customs,traditions,and language.Also,the new hire must be comfortable with Hudson Food's organizational culture and business traditions.Who among the following will Erica most likely recruit for this position?

Guerrilla linguistics is often used in the cultural assimilation stage.

A manager could most likely gain information on a local area's housing,health care,transportation,schools,and climate by participating in ________.

Which of the following is an appropriate and widely-used method for staffing international business operations?

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 ________.

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. -If Gem Jewels wants its employees to get "into the minds" of the local people,it should provide ________.

Expatriate failure refers to an employee's early return from an international assignment because of inadequate job performance.

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

Individuals from the home country manage operations outside the home country in ________ staffing.