Exam 16: Hiring and Managing Employees

Which of the following international assignment preparation methods involves a trainee feeling the stresses inherent in living in the culture?

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

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?

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

Which of the following offers insight into a host country's political,legal,economic,and social institutions as a way of enhancing environmental briefings?

Which of the following terms is defined as the process of identifying and attracting a qualified pool of applicants for vacant positions?

The first phase of human resource planning is estimating the company's future HR needs.

Which of the following statements regarding ethnocentric staffing is true?

The positive or negative condition of relations between employers and their workers is referred to as ________.

An ethnocentric policy toward staffing is typically reserved for top-level managers.

Codetermination allows labor representatives to participate in high-level company meetings.

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

What challenges do international labor unions face as they try to accomplish their objectives?

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

A(n)________ policy can be pursued to hire employees at all levels in an organization.

Companies use polycentric staffing to re-create local operations in the image of home-country operations.

Which of the following phases of human resource planning involves decruitment?

The most common inducement that companies offer managers to accept international postings is ________.

Which of the following is true of employee compensation in international companies?

The compensation of nonmanagerial workers is strongly influenced by increased cross-border business investment.