Management 363 Ch. 10
It is important for companies to place more emphasis on developing potential expatriates' technical skills than on preparing them to work in other cultures.
False
Virtual expatriates incur higher costs than traditional expatriates.
False
Job hopping is prevalent in high-technology industries.
True
_____ involves changing one's major work activity after having been established in a specific field. Job repositioning Job novelty Career recycling Telecommuting
Career recycling
Sector partnerships are designed to help individuals recycle their careers.
False
Sector partnerships typically focus on jobs that require more than a four-year college degree.
False
The _____ Act is designed to assist states in building school-to-work systems that prepare students for high-skill, high-wage jobs or for future education. School-to-Work Opportunities Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Workforce Investment Sector Partnership
School-to-Work Opportunities
The use of phased retirement plans is complicated by regulations regarding taxation of retirement benefits.
True
_____ refer to employees who have an assignment to manage an operation abroad without being located in that country. Virtual expatriates Market mavens Offshore employees Intrapreneurial employees
Virtual expatriates
Career recycling is limited to older employees who are nearing retirement.
False
Which of the following causes overseas assignments to fail? Including an employee's family in orientation programs High tolerance of ambiguity Asking employees to self-manage the repatriation process Developing technical skills over cross-cultural preparation
Developing technical skills over cross-cultural preparation
Copyrights protect the ideas that materials contain.
False
In most circumstances, organizations are not required to pay employees for attending training.
False
Individuals must wait until the age of 65 to begin receiving social security benefits.
False
Injuries incurred by employees during training cannot result in legal action.
False
Repatriation is the process of preparing individuals for expatriate assignments.
False
The Age Discrimination in Employment Act (ADEA) provides protection for all individuals based on age.
False
_____ refers to having two employees divide the hours, responsibilities, and benefits of a full-time. Job rotation Job sharing Job enlargement Job shadowing
Job sharing
In the _____ stage, individuals are concerned with keeping their skills up to date and being perceived as someone who is still contributing to the company. exploration decline establishment maintenance
Maintenance
_____ is a way to reduce head count and lower labor costs. Offering an early retirement plan Encouraging flextime Job hopping Compressing the workweek
Offering an early retirement plan
_____ involves employees transitioning from full-time employment to full-time retirement by working part-time. Compressed retirement Early retirement Phased retirement Golden parachute retirement
Phased retirement
Which of the following relates to employees making a transition into life without work? Retirement Retrenchment Retreatment Recycling
Retirement
Through sector partnerships, workforce skill needs can be met faster than if individual employers worked alone.
True
Which of the following is a characteristic associated with the long-term success of diversity programs? Diversity programs are evaluated using metrics such as sales and promotion rates. Managers are blamed for problems. Manager involvement in diversity programs is optional and not mandatory. Diversity programs are "one-shot" efforts.
Diversity programs are evaluated using metrics such as sales and promotion rates
Which of the following is true of repatriation? Employees are guaranteed a higher standard of living. Employees may leave the company if their assignments upon returning home have less responsibility. Expatriates tend to experience little or no stress. Employees should not be asked to self-manage the repatriation process.
Employees may leave the company if their assignments upon returning home have less responsibility
_____ refers to giving employees the option of choosing when to work during the workday or workweek. Telecommuting Compressed workweek Job autonomy Flextime
Flextime
The _____ refers to a barrier to advancement for women and minorities. adverse effect funnel effect glass ceiling discrimination effect
Glass ceiling
Which of the following is the best way to provide training for international assignments with a high level of cultural and job novelty that require a good deal of interpersonal interaction with host nationals? Standard lecture method Group-building method Self-paced learning Presentation method
Group-building method
_____ refers to employees changing jobs, usually between companies, every two to three years. Job hopping Job rotation Job migration Job skipping
Job hopping
Which of the following is a disadvantage of job hopping? Job hopping makes it difficult for a company to downsize if necessary. Job hopping makes it difficult to sustain continuity in employee-customer relationships. Job hopping reduces a company's opportunity to hire employees with a variety of experiences. Hiring employees who job hop decreases the company's flexibility and adaptability.
Job hopping makes it difficult to sustain continuity in employee-customer relationships
_____ prepares expatriates for their return to the parent company and home country. Repatriation Immigration Emigration Inpatriation
Repatriation
Which of the following is a disadvantage of virtual expatriates? They expose the family to the culture shock of an overseas move. They are more costly than traditional expatriates. They lack a strong personal relationship with local employees. They have no interactions with the home office.
They lack a strong personal relationship with local employees
Which of the following statements is most true regarding dual career paths? They were designed to enhance work-life balance for working families. They were designed to help chart future employment prospects for individual contributors. They were designed to primarily meet the needs of Millennials. There were designed to help with early retirement.
They were designed to help chart future employment prospects for individual contributors
Companies can deduct the cost of training as a business expense.
True
Expatriates and their families are likely to experience high levels of stress when they return from foreign assignments.
True
Federal laws require companies in the gaming industry, such as casinos, to train employees to report suspicious activity.
True
Managing diversity may require changing company culture.
True
Millennials and Gen Xers are more accustomed to change and job insecurity than Baby Boomers.
True
Preretirement socialization helps employees avoid being forced to return to work because of poor financial planning.
True
The _____ Act makes it easier for veterans to find employment when they return from service. Workforce Investment Age Discrimination in Employment Equal Employment Opportunity Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment
Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment
In the _____ stage, individuals are largely concerned with achieving more responsibility and financial success. exploration decline establishment maintenance
establishment
The establishment stage of an employee's career involves _____. pursuing the type of education and training an employee needs finding employment, achieving more responsibility, and financial success a self-assessment of interests, values, and preferences being perceived as someone with many years of experience
finding employment, achieving more responsibility, and financial success
Legal action against a company is not warranted when _____. employees incur injuries during training conducted by the company employees incur injuries or damages in training conducted by a vendor or consultant the company uses small amounts of copyrighted material as per the fair use doctrine decisions about training and development opportunities are made on the basis of age
the company uses small amounts of copyrighted materials as per the fair use doctrine
An expatriate is an employee _____. working as a spy in a competitor's company who has been headhunted from a firm to join another company who works in a country other than his or her country of origin working for a multinational company in his home country
who works in a country other than his or her country of origin
The cornerstone of the _____ system is One-Stop service delivery, which unifies numerous training, education, and employment programs into a single, customer-friendly system in each community. workforce investment school-to-work opportunities dual-career-path social security
workforce investment