Exam 9: Staffing Training and Compensation for Global Operations

According to the "Best International Human Resource Management Practices Project," which country places a heavy emphasis on a person's potential and little emphasis on experience?

All of the following are disadvantage of an ethnocentric staffing approach EXCEPT ________.

All of the following are potential problem areas related to expatriate assignments EXCEPT ________.

What is the goal of providing cross-cultural training to expatriate managers? Why do chains such as Starbucks and McDonald's provide extensive training to HCN managers?

Which of the following is the LEAST critical area of expatriate preparation?

Which of the following terms refers to employees who work and live in a foreign country but remain citizens of the country where the employing organization is headquartered?

Which of the following methods is used by many firms to reduce the overall costs of expatriate assignments?

All of the following are most likely components of an expatriate's total compensation package EXCEPT ________.

According to surveys of SME managers, which of the following is the top training priority for e-business development?

Hsi-An Shih' s study of MNE's in five different countries found that goals were set by individual employees and finalized by host-country managers in all of the following countries EXCEPT ________.

Which of the following staffing approaches has the broadest geographical pool from which to recruit?

Sears Department Store has over 900 stores in the U.S. and over 300 stores in Mexico and Canada. Sears has been particularly successful in Mexico, and the firm's executives believe Sears should expand into other Latin American countries. As a result, plans are underway for the construction of a new Sears store in Managua, Nicaragua. Construction should be complete within three months, so staff selection needs to begin soon. Sears' executives are considering the idea of using parent-country nationals to manage the new store in Nicaragua. Which of the following, if true, best supports the argument that parent-country nationals should manage the Sears in Nicaragua?

What is the primary concern of Western managers in China according to a study by Bjorkman and Lu?

Training during the export stage of globalization will most likely focus on ________.

Which of the following international staffing approaches will most likely produce a specific mix of PCNs, HCNs, and TCNs?

In which of the following countries would a chief finance officer most likely earn the largest salary?

Why is expatriate compensation complicated? What are universal best practices regarding employee compensation?

Managerial training in ________ is becoming increasingly important among firms in emerging markets as a way to capitalize on new strategic opportunities.

Which of the following is NOT one of the reasons that most MNCs shift from an ethnocentric to a polycentric or regiocentric staffing approach?

According to the "Best International Human Resource Management Practices Project," employers in Anglo countries believe that ________ are the most important selection criteria.