Exam 16: Hiring and Managing Employees

Scenario: Swingset International Jerome Johnston, the human resource manager at the U.S.-based Swingset International, is developing an international staffing policy for the company. Jerome personally believes Swingset should send managers from the United States to manage each subsidiary. But the CEO of the company, Valerie Vermont, believes subsidiary operations ought to be managed by individuals from the host country. -Which of the following is a drawback of Jerome's staffing approach?

The process of recruitment involves screening and hiring the best-qualified applicants with the greatest performance potential.

The psychological process of readapting to one's home culture after working in a host-country culture is called ________.

________ would most likely be recruited for non-managerial positions at foreign subsidiaries that do not require specialized skills.

Having the freedom to choose whether to accept or reject an expatriate assignment increases the likelihood a manager will be successful at the assignment.

________ is the process of staffing a company and ensuring that employees are as productive as possible.

Which of the following trains managers to be considerate and understanding of other people's feelings and emotions?

Scenario: Swingset International Jerome Johnston, the human resource manager at the U.S.-based Swingset International, is developing an international staffing policy for the company. Jerome personally believes Swingset should send managers from the United States to manage each subsidiary. But the CEO of the company, Valerie Vermont, believes subsidiary operations ought to be managed by individuals from the host country. -The approach recommended by Valerie is called ________.

A ________ policy would give the foreign units of a company a degree of autonomy in decision-making.

Training local workers on how to work on an assembly line is an example of cultural assimilation.

Companies typically recruit locally for non-managerial positions.

To speed up the process of getting government approval for local operations,companies must hire home country nationals.

The process of identifying and attracting a qualified pool of applicants for vacant positions is called recruiting.

Scenario: Mr. Yoshimura Goes to Tennessee Mr. Yoshimura, vice president of quality control at Oshimura Yarn, has recently been assigned to a three-year project at the company's Tennessee plant. Mr. Yoshimura has brought his wife and his three daughters with him from Yokohama to Tennessee. -Mr.Yoshimura and his family were initially very excited to see Tennessee but soon started missing their home,relatives and friends in Japan.They are facing ________.

Planning for decruitment normally occurs when a company ________.

Guerrilla linguistics is often used in the cultural assimilation stage.

The major disadvantage of a geocentric staffing policy is its potential for ________.

Which of the following is a major drawback of ethnocentric staffing?

A polycentric staffing strategy can facilitate the transfer of special know-how to branch operations.

A major drawback of geocentric staffing is that it is expensive.