Question 1

What is the advantage of a geocentric staffing policy?

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A)  It requires firms to provide little or no documentation to hire a foreign national.
B)  It enables firms to build a cadre of international executives who feel at home working in a number of cultures.
C)  It is inexpensive to implement the policy in a firm.
D)  It allows all key management positions of the firms and their subsidiaries to be filled by parent-country nationals.
E)  It helps firms to follow a localization strategy.F) A) and B)
G) A) and C)

Question 2

According to the results of a seminal study by R.L.Tung,the top reason why Japanese expatriate managers fail is

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A)  the inability of their spouses to adjust.
B)  the lack of technical competence.
C)  their personal or emotional problems.
D)  the inability to cope with larger overseas responsibilities.
E)  their inability to deal with difficulties in the new environment.F) All of the above
G) B) and E)

Question 3

Describe the disadvantages of a polycentric staffing policy.

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A polycentric approach has its drawbacks...

Question 4

It is important that the spouse of an expatriate manager,and perhaps the whole family,be included in cultural training programs.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 5

For international firms,an ethnocentric staffing approach is compatible with a localization strategy.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 6

Organizational architecture refers to an organization's norms and value systems.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 7

_____ refers to a subset of expatriates who are citizens of a foreign country working in the home country of their multinational employer.

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A)  Virtual expatriates
B)  Inpatriates
C)  Third-country nationals
D)  Host-country nationals
E)  Parent-country nationalsF) B) and E)
G) B) and D)

Question 8

The major drawback with a polycentric staffing policy is the gap that can form between host-country managers and parent-country managers due to language barriers.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 9

According to R.L.Tung's study,which of the following is the most important reason for expatriate failures for U.S.multinationals?

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A)  inability of spouse to adjust
B)  difficulties with new environment
C)  insufficient pay
D)  personal or emotional problems
E)  lack of technical competenceF) A) and B)
G) A) and E)

Question 10

According to the results of a seminal study by R.L.Tung,what was the major reason for expatriate failure among European expatriates?

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A)  personal or emotional problems
B)  inability to cope with overseas responsibilities
C)  poor pay
D)  inability of spouse to adjust to a new environment
E)  lack of technical competenceF) B) and D)
G) A) and D)

Question 11

Rhone-Rohrer Chemicals,a French leader in specialty chemicals used an ethnocentric policy to approach international markets.It followed the same domestic marketing and management practices in foreign markets.Rhone-Rohrer Chemicals' international expansion failed miserably because Rhone-Rohrer Chemicals suffered from

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A)  cultural parity.
B)  cultural myopia.
C)  power distance.
D)  cultural toughness.
E)  cultural polarization.F) None of the above
G) A) and E)

Question 12

Historically,most international businesses have been more concerned with management development than with training.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 13

_____ is/are an additional and difficult dimension to the long-standing problem of expatriate failure due to the inability of the spouse to adjust.

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A)  Formal training
B)  Dual-career families
C)  Cultural diversity
D)  Single parenting
E)  Cultural toughnessF) D) and E)
G) All of the above

Question 14

Countries such as the United States and China require extensive documentation if companies wish to hire a foreign national instead of a local national.This is an important consideration for Santa Ana Wines,a Brazilian wine maker,as it decides on its staffing policy for international expansion.Which of the following staffing approaches is most likely to be affected by this?

Accepted Answer

A)  polycentric
B)  geocentric
C)  transnational
D)  ethnocentric
E)  localF) A) and B)
G) A) and D)

Question 15

Which of the following staffing policies is followed by firms that can reduce the issue of compensation to that of how much home-country expatriates should be paid?

Accepted Answer

A)  polycentric
B)  ethnocentric
C)  geocentric
D)  international
E)  globalF) All of the above
G) A) and D)

Question 16

Geodyne,a United States-based player in the energy business is clear-cut in its human resources policy with regard to international expansion.While U.S.nationals staff key positions at its Orlando,Florida headquarters,it recruits locals to manage subsidiaries in each country that it goes into.Which of the following is an advantage of Geodyne's polycentric staffing approach?

Accepted Answer

A)  It is less expensive to implement as compared to other staffing approaches.
B)  It gives host-country nationals unlimited opportunities to gain experience outside their own country.
C)  It increases career mobility.
D)  It increases interaction between the headquarters of a firm and its foreign subsidiaries.
E)  It bridges the gap between host-country managers and parent-country managers.F) B) and C)
G) A) and D)

Question 17

Which of the following staffing policies is concerned with the need for a cadre of international managers that may include many different nationalities?

Accepted Answer

A)  polycentric
B)  geocentric
C)  ethnocentric
D)  regiocentric
E)  localizedF) A) and B)
G) A) and C)

Question 18

Dalian Pharma,a Chinese company,prides itself on its corporate culture that it has developed over a twenty-year period.Dalian believes that its corporate culture is a key to its competitive advantage.What is the staffing policy likely to be followed by Dalian Pharma if it expands to Germany?

Accepted Answer

A)  eurocentric
B)  ethnocentric
C)  polycentric
D)  geocentric
E)  transnationalF) D) and E)
G) A) and C)

Question 19

The _____ approach is the most common approach to expatriate pay,which equalizes purchasing power across countries so employees can enjoy the same living standard in their foreign posting that they enjoyed at home.

Accepted Answer

A)  merit
B)  correspondence
C)  balance sheet
D)  parity
E)  perceptualF) C) and E)
G) A) and E)

Question 20

Which of the following steps is true of bias in performance evaluations?

Accepted Answer

A)  More weight should be given to an off-site manager's appraisal than an on-site manager's appraisal.
B)  Cultural bias increases when the on-site manager is of the same nationality as the expatriate.
C)  Home-office managers should write performance evaluations without consulting on-site managers to avoid bias.
D)  Due to proximity,an on-site manager is more likely to evaluate the soft variables that are important aspects of an expatriate's performance.
E)  A performance appraisal is invalid when the on-site manager is of the same nationality as the expatriate manager.F) A) and E)
G) B) and C)

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Organizational architecture refers to an organization's norms and value systems.

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According to the results of a seminal study by R.L.Tung,what was the major reason for expatriate failure among European expatriates?

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The major drawback with a polycentric staffing policy is the gap that can form between host-country managers and parent-country managers due to language barriers.

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_____ refers to a subset of expatriates who are citizens of a foreign country working in the home country of their multinational employer.

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The _____ approach is the most common approach to expatriate pay,which equalizes purchasing power across countries so employees can enjoy the same living standard in their foreign posting that they enjoyed at home.

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For international firms,an ethnocentric staffing approach is compatible with a localization strategy.

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According to the results of a seminal study by R.L.Tung,the top reason why Japanese expatriate managers fail is

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