Chapter 13

Allied Food Inc. is a food and beverage manufacturing company in Bordania. While staffing its top positions in its headquarters and in its foreign subsidiaries, it focuses only on finding suitable people to fill the positions. The nationality of the applicants is not considered important. In this case, which of the following staffing approaches has Allied Food Inc. adopted?

A geocentric approach

A perceived lack of talent among parent-country nationals (PCNs) often necessitates an ethnocentric approach.

False

Every country has formal rules that are embodied in cultures, norms, and values governing the do's and don'ts of human resource management.

False

In the context of performance appraisals, evaluation of host-country nationals by expatriates is isolated from cultural differences.

False

To be more effective and supportive of labor causes, labor unions should move operations around the world.

False

Training and development programs for expatriates who are assigned to work for a short period in a foreign country should ideally:

Involve survival-level language training.

In the context of repatriation, which of the following is true of a psychological contract?

It is an informal understanding and can be easily violated.

When a geocentric approach in staffing is adopted, _____.

The nationality of the employees is disregarded.

Jane is an experienced analyst at a data analytics company based in Bulimia. She is traveling to their subsidiary unit at Sparanthea to explain the use of the latest data analytics tools to the newly recruited data analysts. In this scenario, Jane is an expatriate acting as a(n) _____.

Trainer

According to a polycentric approach in staffing, host-country nationals (HCNs):

Who are in top positions send morale-boosting signals to others.