Exam 9: Staffing, Training, and Compensation for Global Operations

Building global corporate cultures and staffing organizations with global leaders are some of the major challenges faced by the HR function in the global arena.

Expatriates are managers with global experience who are transferred to the organization's headquarters country, so their overseas business and cultural experience and contacts can facilitate interactions among the country's far-flung operations.

When the company is at the internationalization stage of strategic expansion and has a centralized structure, it will likely use a(n)________ staffing approach to fill key managerial positions with PCNs.

________ are familiar with company goals, products, technology, policies, and procedures; they know how to get things accomplished through headquarters.

Which of the following is NOT a barrier for maintaining globalization momentum?

Local managers can provide communication of strategic goals and change processes, and provide continuity among revolving expatriates and host nationals.

Alec is an American working for a software company in Texas.He has been assigned to work on a project in China for a year.He would be considered as a(n)________ in China.

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

What are the major causes of expatriate failure?

Which of the following is a disadvantage of the ethnocentric staffing approach?

With an ethnocentric staffing approach, host-country nationals are hired to fill key positions in their own country.

________ are employees assigned to a country other than their own.

Simon Parker, an American, works with a Houston-based MNC, Orpheus Inc.When he was sent to Africa to manage his company's newly-opened facility in Lagos, Nigeria, Simon was placed with Mr.Adeyami and his family as part of a familiarization program.Orpheus paid for this field experience known as ________.

Which staffing approach will most likely be effective when implementing a global strategy of "acting local"?

Inpatriate managers can facilitate multicultural management teams in global organizations.

Who, among the following, when used to manage subsidiaries, usually brings more cultural flexibility and adaptability to a situation?

Describe Tung's five training techniques for assisting expatriates in the adjustment process.How can training be integrated with global orientation?

As described by Oberg, in the ________ stage of culture shock the expatriate and his or her family members come to understand and predict patterns of behavior, use the language, deal with daily activities, and accept their new life.

According to Tung, which of the following refers to a training technique where the trainees are acquainted with documentary programs about the country's geography, economics, sociopolitical history, and so forth?

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