Exam 19: Global Human Resource Management

A number of other studies have consistently confirmed that the inability of a spouse to adjust remains a major reason for continuing high levels of expatriate failure.Discuss the reasons behind the difficulties a spouse faces in adapting to a new country.

Expatriate failure refers to a manager's failure to understand host-country cultural norms and values,leading to ineffective work.

Which of the following staffing approaches will be most effective for a firm that is pursuing a transnational strategy?

What are the advantages of the geocentric staffing policy?

Discuss Mendenhall and Oddou's assertion that an executive who performs well in a domestic setting may not adapt to a different cultural setting.

Expatriate managers who have perceptual ability tend to treat foreign nationals as if they were home-country nationals.

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

Bringing managers together in one location for extended periods and rotating them through different jobs in several countries is a part of:

Practical training is:

The international trade secretariats have had tremendous success.

A firm following a polycentric approach to staffing believes that the host country lacks qualified individuals to manage subsidiaries.

HRM professionals have a critically important strategic role.

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

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):

A firm using a polycentric staffing policy:

Bringing managers together in one location for extended periods and rotating them through different jobs in several countries helps the firm build a formal management network.

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

The ability to understand why people of other countries behave the way they do is perceptual ability.

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

A seminal study,R.L.Tung,revealed that for European firms,the top reason for expatriate failure was the inability of the manager to cope with larger overseas responsibilities.