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Question 31

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A citizen of Japan who moves to the United States to work at Microsoft would be classified as a(n) :

A) expatriate.
B) inpatriate.
C) third-country national.
D) host-country national.

E) None of the above
F) A) and C)

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Question 32

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Which of the following is an advantage of adopting a polycentric staffing approach?

A) It may be less expensive to implement compared to other approaches,reducing the costs of value creation.
B) Host-country nationals have unlimited opportunities to gain experience outside their own country.
C) It enables the firm to make the best use of its human resources.
D) It enables the firm to build a cadre of international executives who feel at home working in a number of cultures.

E) All of the above
F) B) and C)

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Expatriate managers who lack others-orientation tend to treat foreign nationals as if they were home-country nationals.

A citizen of one country who is working abroad in one of the firm's subsidiaries is an expatriate manager.

How has organized labor responded to the increased bargaining power of multinational corporations?

Unless a host country has _____ with the expatriate's home country,the expatriate may have to pay income tax to both the home- and host-country governments.

The fact that many countries want foreign subsidiaries to employ their citizens limits firms' ability to pursue a geocentric policy.

To reduce bias in performance evaluations,many expatriates think that more weight should be given to a(n) _____ manager's appraisal than to a(n) _____ manager's appraisal.

Transnational firm managers do not need culture training to understand the culture of the host country.

Many Japanese auto plants are not unionized.In this background,which of the following concerns is United Auto Workers most concerned about?

According to the results of a seminal study by R.L.Tung,the number one reason that Japanese expatriate managers fail is:

Describe the concept of human resources management.What extra challenges confront an international business in this area?

_____ is the premature return of an expatriate manager to his/her home country.

An expatriate's base salary is normally lower than the base pay for a similar position in the home country.

According to Mendenhall and Oddou,the attribute of _____ enhances the expatriate's ability to interact effectively with host-country nationals.

According to Mendenhall and Oddou,the attribute of _____ provides an expatriate the ability to understand why people of other countries behave the way they do.

If a firm is trying to create value by transferring core competencies to a foreign operation,it may believe that the best way to do so is to transfer parent-country nationals who have knowledge of that competency to the foreign operation.This is a reason for the firm to pursue a(n) _____ staffing policy.

In _____ firms,the lack of manager's mobility among national operations implies that pay can and should be kept country-specific.

What is the purpose of cultural training for an expatriate? How can "culture shock" be avoided?

Which of the following staffing policies rely extensively on the use of expatriate managers?