Exam 14: Human Resource Selection and Development Across Cultures

The organizational input into anticipatory adjustment is most directly related and concerned with the:

Base salary is the amount of money that an expatriate normally receives in the home country plus a cost-of-living adjustment.

Historically, MNCs have staffed key positions in their foreign affiliates with host-country nationals.

Training programs are useful in preparing people for overseas assignments for many reasons.These reasons can be put into two general categories which are:

Headquarters nationals are another term used for:

Which of the following statements about third-country nationals are false?

Though politically controversial, outsourcing can save companies significant costs and is very profitable for firms that specialize in providing these services on a contract basis.

For most overseas managers, repatriation occurs within five years of the time they leave.

Which of the following approaches is used to develop an expatriate compensation package that involves setting a compensation system for all expats who are assigned to a particular region and paying everyone in accord with that system?

This is the primary language of international business and most expatriates from all countries can converse in it.

This is common in many large MNCs where managers believe that the home office's approach to doing business can be exported intact to all other countries because this approach is superior to anything at the local level.

A(n) _____ is a programmed learning technique that is designed to expose members of one culture to some of the basic concepts, attitudes, role perceptions, customs, and values of another.

There are three major types of adjustments that an expatriate must make when going on an overseas assignment: anticipatory adjustment, in-country adjustment, and new-job-skill adjustment.

A(n) _____ MNC puts home-office people in charge of key international management positions.

An approach to developing an expatriate compensation package that involves giving the expat a predetermined amount of money and letting the individual make his/her own decisions regarding how to spend it is referred to as the:

The primary reason for training overseas managers is to improve their ability to interact effectively with local people in general and their personnel in particular.

An ethnocentric MNC puts host-office people in charge of key international management positions.

The two most common selection procedures used by MNCs are:

Many MNCs use _______ at the middle- and lower-level ranks.

Identify and explain the different sources that multinational corporations can use in their recruiting and selection procedures.