Exam 20: International Human Resource Management

According to research,expatriates posted to ________ encounter the greatest difficulty in finding accommodations,locating health care,and setting up finances.

Watson Electronics,an MNE based in Canada,tends to follow an ethnocentric staffing model.From which group will it most likely hire for upper-level management positions in its new facility in Germany?

The ethnocentric and polycentric staffing policies,unlike the geocentric staffing policy,rely on extensive use of expatriate managers.

There is growing consensus that human resource managers must hire,develop,reward,and retain people whose performance explicitly improves the ________.

Historically,companies searching their ranks for potential expatriates looked first for individuals with the necessary language proficiency and then evaluated their technical competence.

Which of the following accurately describes a difference between jobs in the home office versus those in a foreign subsidiary?

What is the primary advantage of an MNE using an ethnocentric framework?

Why is global HRM more difficult than domestic HRM? How can staffing a foreign facility with locals alleviate some of these HRM difficulties?

Johnson Construction is an MNE that designs and builds commercial buildings around the world.Johnson has a new contract to construct a building in Pakistan.Tom,a construction manager,will be relocating to Pakistan with his wife,and he will receive additional pay to compensate for the dangerous environment.Which of the following has Johnson Construction most likely offered Tom?

Which of the following best explains why MNEs often employ more locals than expatriate managers in foreign facilities?

________ refers to the activities that an organization carries out to put the right person into the right job in the right place at the right time for the right salary.

A hardship allowance nullifies the risk that an expatriate will suffer a decline in his or her standard of living due to the exorbitant expense of a particular city.

Kevin,a marketing executive with Ace Electronics,has relocated to India for an expatriate assignment.Kevin's wife,Julia,and three children have joined him.Ace Electronics provides the family with money intended to help Julia find a job and develop cross-cultural skills.Which of the following is Ace providing the family?

According to the text,which of the following is the most important competency in the expatriate selection process?

According to the text,what is the most common concern that expatriates have before they move overseas?

Which of the following most accurately describes the current state of HRM efforts to staff international operations?

A key disadvantage of a polycentric staffing policy is that it limits the career mobility of subsidiary executives.

Which of the following is NOT an area in which expatriates experience repatriation frustration?