Exam 1: Global Professional in Human Resources

A corporation decides to pursue a participative management style in order to make improvements in their operational efficiencies. Which of the following processes is the organization utilizing in order to achieve their strategic goal?

An organization is in the decline stage of the organizational life cycle. It has worldwide locations throughout North America, Europe, and Asia. However, it will be closing three of offices within the next two years. This was joint decision made by the management team at the annual managers' meeting, which all managers above the senior manager grade level attended. Key personnel in each of these offices are not worried because they will likely be re-deployed to meet specific organizational needs. In fact, this was what had occurred last year to one of its offices had shut down. In addition, management has reiterated this message. Which of the following stages of globalization BEST describes the phase this company is in?

Which of the following is a measure of recruiting effectiveness in the long term?

Which of the following processes attempts to determine the relative worth of jobs within an organization?

A company decides to pursue an international program to fill a new position in its new office in Beijing, China. With the assistance of the human resources professional, the management team has decided on the ideal candidate utilizing the corporate skills inventory. The individual is fluent in Mandarin, has the appropriate technical skills, and has been in a management role for 3 years. The hiring manager presents the opportunity to the individual who accepts the new position. The human resource professional then works with its vendors to plan all the hogistival details for the relocation. The human resource professional also assists the individual by providing contacts and setting up meetings to orientate the expatriate before and during the assignment, it mentors, expatriate community, etc. In this scenario, which of the following actions items was NOT forgotten to ensure a successful international assignment?

Which of the following would NOT impact the effectiveness of the transfer of training?

An organization has decided to utilize a geographic organizational structure. It has several offices throughout Europe and one office in Asia, in particular, in Shenzhen, China. Although the European offices are very well integrated into headquarters, the office in China has been running fairly independently. Of the locations, this office has been the most resistant to expatriates entering and to developing local talent, In fact, headquarters suspects that most of the hiring and promotions have been based on nepotism. Which of the following gaps does the China office NOT exhibit in this scenario?

Which of the following stages of the International Assignment Process model is the most critical in determining the success of an international assignment?

Which of the following is an explicit factor of a corporate culture ?

Which of the following is NOT a reason why individuals refuse international assignments?

A U.S. Based manufacturing company has decided to expand overseas to South Korea. Which of the following is an example of environmental scanning ?

A Product Manager has been identified to travel 2 weeks every month to the Asia Engineering office on extended business travel for an eight-month period. The other 2 weeks of the month, she works at the U.S. Based headquarters. Which of the following training programs is the MOST critical to ensure success on the job ?

As the of its corporate restructuring program, a corporation has invest in a manufacturing site ten miles outside of Bnagkok, Thailand. Which of the following factors is NOT a labor market factor that might affect the compensation strategy?

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An organization is evolving from a largely domestic to a multinational company with offices around the world. There has been some tension between the new offices and headquarters in regards to the level of freedom of each of the sites. Which of the following steps should be the next step in this change management process towards further globalization?

Which of the following is NOT A measurement technique that measures the effectiveness of an internal process?

After performing a global gap analysis, the global HR team has identified an initiative to identify at least three potential candidates for each Senior Director and VP position. In order to build accountability for implementing this initiative, which of the following pieces of information is NOT necessary?

Which of the following best describes the reason why continual environmental scanning is important for an organization?

The Operations department focuses on providing goods and services to the customer in an efficient, effetive, timely manner. Which of the following is NOT a responsibility of Operations?

A company decides to develop a bonus program as an incentive for employees to increase the number of corporate-owned patents and product innovations. The human resources department is responsible for measuring the increase in the number of patents over time and the increase in the number of R&D projects. Which of the following types of measure BEST describes these metrics ?