Chapter 8 A Int. Workforce Planning & Staffing

Question 1

International workforce planning and staffing

Answer 1

Process of estimating employment needs, recruiting, selecting, and repatriating across different countries.

Question 2

What is the ILO?

Answer 2

International labor organization

Question 3

What is the OECD

Answer 3

Organization for economic cooperation and development

Question 4

Do developing countries have a surplus of people under the age of 25 or over the age of 60?

Answer 4

Over the age of 60

Question 5

Do developing countries have a surplus of people over the age of 60 or under the age of 25?

Answer 5

Under the age of 25

Question 6

Ethnocentric staffing

Answer 6

10 to hire from the HQ country and send employees on international assignment to the subsidiaries.

Question 7

Polycentric staffing

Answer 7

Prefer to use locals from the subsidiary country

Question 8

Regiocentric staffing

Answer 8

Favor using people from a specific region.

Question 9

Geocentric staffing

Answer 9

Anywhere In the world

Question 10

Parent country national

Answer 10

Citizen of HQs country

Question 11

Host country national

Answer 11

Citizen of subsidiary country

Question 12

Third country national

Answer 12

Neither citizen of HQ or subsidiary

Question 13

International assignee

Answer 13

Moving someone to live in the country of a sub for more then 1 year.

Question 14

Purpose of IA

Answer 14

Demand driven

Learning driven

Question 15

Demand driven

Answer 15

Using IAs for managers of subs, roll out new products, tech transfer, solve problems, functional tasks - accounting, sales, manufacturing.

Question 16

Domestic internationals

Answer 16

Employees will never leave home but conduct international business

Question 17

International commuters

Answer 17

Employees who live in Wine country but work in another and regularly commute across borders.

Question 18

Short term international assignee

Answer 18

Shorter than one year

Question 19

Localized employee

Answer 19

This normally refers to the situation where an employee is sent to work in a foreign country but hired as a local employee, with relocation allowances.

Question 20

Permanent cadre or globalists

Answer 20

People who spend essentially their whole career as an international assignments, moving from one locale to another.

Question 21

Stealth assignees

Answer 21

Term used to describe international assignees who are relocated by their managers without ever in forming HR, so that they do not show up in the records, benefits, and support systems used to manage such employees. Many short term assignees fall under this category.

Question 22

Second generation ex pats

Answer 22

Naturalized citizens and are sent on for an assignment is to countries other than their countries of birth.

Question 23

Just in time ex-pats

Answer 23

Adhoc or contract ex-pats.

Question 24

Ward or punishment assignees

Answer 24

These are employees who are late in their careers and who are either given a desirable for an assignment to enjoy and to pad their pensions for when they retire or are sent to a difficult locale as a way to sideline them to finish out their careers.

Question 25

Virtual IEs

Answer 25

Where all or most of the work is performed across borders via electronic media; teleconferences, email, telephone.

Question 26

Self initiated foreign workers

Answer 26

Individuals who travel abroad but who seek work as they travel and her hired in the foreign location, often by firms from their home countries.

Question 27

Retirees

Answer 27

Hiring of a firms retirees for short term for an assignment.