Exam 15: International Human Resources Management

Many farm workers come to Canada to work during the summer period.What is the name of the document issued by the government granting authority to these farm workers to seek employment in Canada?

A multidomestic corporation is essentially a domestic firm that builds on its existing capabilities to penetrate overseas markets.

Some Japanese firms,such as Matsushita and NEC,tend to operate as domestic firms but see the whole world domestically-that is,as their market.What type of firms are these?

What do we call the country in which an international business operates?

Pay plans in Japan tend to focus on individual performance and achievement.

NAFTA has spurred job growth in all three member countries.

At early stages of international expansion,many organizations prefer to use host-country nationals.

Avinash,a Canadian who was sent on an international assignment to Brazil,experienced severe disorientation that caused perpetual stress during his posting.What was Avinash most likely experiencing?

If an organization wanted to decrease the failure rate of its expatriates,one good strategy would be to give more women international assignments.

Different cultural environments require different organizational behaviours.

Compared to Canadian managers,what kind of decision-making style do Japanese managers tend to use in the workplace?

North American managers tend to have highly autocratic decision-making styles.

The first step in selecting expatriates should be self-selection,where employees who volunteer to go abroad are given the chance to do so.

Transnational teams are composed of members from multiple nationalities working on projects that span multiple countries.

Which of the following is a major reason for failure among expatriates?

Canadian companies have been conducting business on an international basis longer than anyone else.

What is most likely to happen when companies fail to use the knowledge,skills,and understanding that expatriate managers acquire in international assignments?

In using the balance-sheet approach to compensating expatriate managers,the term "incentive premiums" refers to which of the following concepts?

A global corporation has fully autonomous units operating in multiple countries.

ABC Inc.,a firm located in Tokyo,Japan,is likely to emphasize which of the following in its pay system?