Exam 19: Global Human Resource Management

A manager might be sent on several foreign postings over a number of years to build his/her cross-cultural sensitivity and experience as part of a management development program.

Cultural myopia refers to a firm's failure to understand host-country cultural differences that require different approaches to marketing and management.

A _____ may be paid to ensure that the expatriate can afford the same quality of housing in the foreign country as in the home country.

The most attractive staffing policy is the ethnocentric approach.

An ethnocentric staffing policy is one in which:

A firm with a(n) _____ staffing policy will fill all key management positions with parent-country nationals.

Should a firm pay executives in different countries according to the prevailing standards in each country, or should it equalize pay on a global basis?

Which dimension of Mendenhall and Oddou's study suggests that an expatriate with high self-esteem, self-confidence, and mental well-being is likely to succeed in a foreign job posing?

In the case of an ethnocentric approach, it is possible that managers may make decisions that are ethically suspect because they do not understand the culture in which they are managing.

Firms may choose an ethnocentric approach to staffing as opposed to a polycentric approach because of the cost savings it promotes.

Mendenhall and Oddou's "others-orientation" dimension, in their study on what predicts success in foreign jobs postings, refers to the:

In a seminal study, R. L. Tung found that for managers of European firms, the biggest impediment to expatriate success was the:

Discuss the reasons why expatriate managers fail to complete their foreign assignment.

An organization's norms and value systems are known as its _____.

If a company recruits host-country nationals to manage subsidiaries while parent-country nationals occupy key positions at corporate headquarters, the firm is following a(n) _____ staffing policy.

Which of the following is one of the factors that impact a spouse adjusting to expatriation?

Base pay in most firms is set with regard to global market conditions.

A citizen of France who moves to the United States to work at Ford is a(n) _____.

How can polycentric approach to staffing result in the creation of a "federation" within the firm? Why is this a disadvantage for the firm?

Which of the following is an action taken by organized labor to respond to the increased bargaining power of multinational corporations?