Week 10 Flashcards
When a company builds facilities in a number of different countries in an effort to minimize production and distribution cost, it is called
Question options:
a) multinational company
b) global organization
c) internal company
d) cross-national organization
A
The parent company is the country in which
Question options:
a) the organisation’s manufacturing operation is located
b) the organisation’s headquarters is located
c) the organisation’s R&D operations is located
d) the organisation’s regional headquarters is located
B
The organisation that locates each facility is based on the ability to effectively, efficiently and flexibly produce a product or service, using cultural differences as an advantage and may have multiple headquarters spread across the globe where decisions are more decentralized is known as
Question options:
a) a multinational company
b) an international company
c) a global company
d) a regional company
C
An employee who was born and works in the country in which an organization’s headquarters is located is known as
Question options:
a) expatriates
b) third-country national
c) host-country national
d) parent-country national
D
If a multinational company hires a manager who is neither the parent country of the company nor from the host country to work in its facility in the host country, the employee is referred as a
Question options:
a) third country national
b) third world national
c) cross-country national
d) international employee
A
If the company hires an employee who is the citizen of the country (other than parent country) in which the company operates a facility, the employee is called a
Question options:
a) host country national
b) parent country national
c) third country national
d) local employee
A
Which is by far the most important influence on international HRM?
Question options:
a) education level of the country
b) culture of the country
c) economic systems of the country
d) political-legal systems of the country
B
Geert Hofstede’s 5 Dimensions of Culture are
Question options:
a) individualism/collectivism; power distance; uncertainty avoidance; masculinity/femininity; long-term/short term
b) individualism/collectivism; power distance; uncertainty avoidance; masculinity/femininity; pride/humility
c) internal focus/external focus; power distance; uncertainty avoidance; masculinity/femininity; long-term/short term
d) individualism/collectivism; power distance; directive/autonomous; masculinity/femininity; long-term/short term
A
When fundamental decisions are made in headquarters and foreign subsidiaries possess little autonomy, the orientation of the company is said to be
Question options:
a) polycentric
b) ethnocentric
c) regiocentric
d) geocentric
B
Polycentric refers to an orientation where
Question options:
a) fundamental decisions are made in headquarters and foreign subsidiaries possess little autonomy
b) subsidiaries are interconnected and regulated by a regional centre
c) headquarters considers subsidiaries as independent entities and autonomy is granted to a great extent
d) headquarters and foreign subsidiaries are integrated worldwide and interdependent to a high degree
C
When a company adopts an ethnocentric orientation, the manager of its overseas subsidiary are likely to be
Question options:
a) home country nationals
b) third country nationals
c) local employees
d) parent company nationals
D
Assignments which include special arrangements where the employee commutes on a weekly basis or bi-weekly basis to the place of work in another country is known as
Question options:
a) short-term assignment
b) extended assignment
c) commuter assignment
d) virtual assignment
C
An international reward management policy and practice in which corporate job evaluation and grade structures are recommended and permits modifications to fit local conditions but expects compliance to international guiding principles for rewards is referred to as
Question options:
a) total convergence
b) partial divergence
c) partial convergence
d) total divergence
B
The approach where local companies have complete freedom to develop and apply their own reward policies and practices is known as
Question options:
a) total convergence
b) partial divergence
c) total divergence
d) partial convergence
C
Tax equalization is the
Question options:
a) agreement that the parent company pays the taxes of the parent country and host country where the expatriate is working
b) agreement that the expatriate is responsible for all the taxes due in the home and host country
c) agreement by the host company to bear the expatriate’s taxes in the host country during his assignment
d) agreement on handling tax differences between home and host country
D
