Exam 16: Global Issues for Human Resource Managers

Acme Global recognizes that different employees have different compensation needs when on expatriate assignments.Some may need compensation to pay for their children's education.Others may work in areas where they must pay high taxes.To avoid having to design an individualized pay package for every employee,Acme Global gives every expatriate employee a set amount for extra expenses.It appears Acme Global is using the ______ approach to expatriate compensation.

______ originally identified five dimensions that allow a country culture to be plotted along a continuum.

Firms that generally emphasize adapting to local culture and practices will generally choose to staff international facilities with ______ nationals.

Ethnocentrism refers to regarding one's own ethnic group or culture as superior to that of others.

______ capital is human-made capital like machines,tools,buildings,and other infrastructure that are used to produce other assets.

The ______ bars U.S.-based or U.S.-listed companies from bribing foreign officials in exchange for business.

Polycentric organizations emphasize adapting to local culture and will generally choose to hire host-country employees.

In the national-plus approach to expatriate compensation,the employee receives compensation based on the host country's ordinary pay structures and then receive allowances to allow them to more closely match their living standard in their home country.

Discuss the advantages and disadvantages,along with the ethical implications,of outsourcing.

The process of bringing home an individual after they have been on international assignment is called ______.

______ capital refers to trust,norms,and networks that people can draw upon to solve common problems and create social cohesion.

An American employed by a foreign company in a country other than the United States ______ have the protection of U.S.equal employment opportunity laws.

Project GLOBE confirmed Hofstede's research and expanded his five original dimensions into _____.

______ is a negative attitude toward knowledge/technology/products from other external sources.

______ is a process where the organization pays the individual partly in home-country currency and partly in the currency of their work location.

Having a ______ mind-set is a key standard for contemporary managers.

Discuss the ways the major functions in HRM must be reconsidered in an international operation.

In a ______ approach to expatriate compensation,the employer and employee mutually agree on a compensation package.

Project GLOBE refuted Hofstede's findings and came up with its own set of nine dimensions of culture.

Before going on her expatriate assignment to Lisbon for Acme Global,Amy had a meeting with a human resources manager to decide her compensation.It appears Acme Global took the ______ approach to Amy's compensation.