Exam 17: Managing Human Resources in a Global Business

What is the formal term used to describe the document that contains the expatriate's specific job requirements and remuneration,vacation,home leave,and repatriation agreement?

British Columbia is the recipient of most of Canada's landed immigrants.

According to the textbook,most managerial positions in both headquarters and foreign subsidiaries are filled by which of the following?

Discuss the challenges of international compensation and differentiate between the balance sheet and variable pay approaches to compensation.

A Canadian company has offices in the United States,France,and Japan.Each office outside of Canada is managed by a Canadian expatriate; this company appears to have a polycentric staffing policy.

According to the textbook,what reason do managers of European firms emphasize for the failure of expatriate assignments?

According to the textbook,what is the major reason for using expatriates (either parent-country or third-country nationals)for staffing subsidiary operations?

Which global staffing policy would a corporation adopt if the belief was that only host-country managers can ever really understand the culture and behaviour of the host-country market?

What is the formal term that is used to describe the degree to which ties between people are normally close or loose?

Which term describes the process of moving expatriates and their families back home from the foreign assignment?

What are the three international staffing policies discussed in the textbook?

In the levels of cross-cultural training described in the textbook,which level corresponds to a focus on attitudes and aims to get participants to understand how attitudes are formed and how they influence behaviour?

The number of expatriates working abroad is continuing to decrease.

According to the textbook,there has been a trend toward

Differences in cultural factors help to explain why incentive plans in China tend to focus on the work group,whereas in the United States,the focus is usually on individual worker incentive plans.

Third-country nationals are employees who are returning home following the completion of multiple,successful foreign work assignments.

According to the textbook,in which country do health and safety laws exist but are largely unenforced?

What is the formal term used in the textbook to describe employees who are citizens of the country where the parent company is based and are sent to work in another country?

What is the cultural dimension used to describe countries where people tend to look out for themselves?

A British executive working in a Tokyo subsidiary of a Canadian multinational bank would be referred to as which of the following?