Ch14-3

The salary and moving expenses associated with using employees from the home country are potential drawbacks of Blank______ staffing policies. polycentric geocentric regiocentric ethnocentric

ethnocentric

What international human resource management approach would be used when a company's primary strategic orientation is multidomestic? regiocentric polycentric geocentric ethnocentric

polycentric

What international human resource approach would be used by companies with slightly higher pressures for cost reductions and slightly lower pressures for local responsiveness than is the case for the multidomestic strategy? polycentric ethnocentric geocentric regiocentric

regiocentric

Select all that apply Staffing includes which two activities? (Check all that apply.) training selection recruitment development

selection recruitment

The process of recruitment and selection is also called ______.

staffing

Which international human resource management approach would be utilized by a company with a primarily international strategic orientation characterized by low pressures for cost reduction and low pressures for local responsiveness? ethnocentric polycentric regiocentric geocentric

ethnocentric

What international human resource management approach would be used by companies with a transnational strategic orientation? polycentric ethnocentric geocentric regiocentric

geocentric

The _________ human resource approach utilizes a variety of host-country nationals and third-country nationals for key positions in the region. geocentric polycentric ethnocentric regiocentric

regiocentric

Select all that apply Which of the following are characteristic of a polycentric approach to staffing? (Check all that apply.) Human resource policies are made at the local level. Movement from the local subsidiaries to headquarters positions is common. The company hires host-country nationals to work in foreign subsidiaries. The company hires PCNs for headquarters positions.

-Human resource policies are made at the local level. -The company hires host-country nationals to work in foreign subsidiaries. -The company hires PCNs for headquarters positions.

Which of the following are characteristic of an ethnocentric staffing policy? (Check all that apply.) -It uses labor negotiators to troubleshoot problems. -Decisions are made at headquarters. -It uses teams from the home country to assist with new plant start-up. -It utilizes host-country nationals in key management positions.

-It uses labor negotiators to troubleshoot problems. -Decisions are made at headquarters. -It uses teams from the home country to assist with new plant start-up.

Select all that apply Which of the following are drawbacks of ethnocentric staffing policies? (Check all that apply.) -home-country managers' unfamiliarity with corporate culture -language and cultural barriers for expatriates -higher salaries for home-country managers working abroad -relocation expenses for home-country managers

-language and cultural barriers for expatriates -higher salaries for home-country managers working abroad -relocation expenses for home-country managers

Select all that apply Which of the following are disadvantages of a polycentric staffing policy? (Check all that apply.) local managers unfamiliar with corporate culture the expense of using host-country nationals as managers differences in local managers' values and attitudes local managers creating their own upward immobility

-local managers unfamiliar with corporate culture -differences in local managers' values and attitudes -local managers creating their own upward immobility

Local managers being unfamiliar with corporate culture, policies, and practices is a disadvantage of ______ staffing policy, ethnocentric polycentric geocentric regiocentric

polycentric

If a company is driven simultaneously by high pressures for cost reduction and high pressures for local responsiveness, it is likely to follow a _______ staffing policy.

Geocentric