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Question 31

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Col-For, an Italian beverage company, prides itself on its corporate culture that it has developed over a twenty-year period and believes it is a key to its competitive advantage. What staffing policy will the company likely follow if it expands to Germany?

A) eurocentric
B) ethnocentric
C) polycentric
D) geocentric
E) transnational

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Question 32

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International businesses differ in terms of their approaches to international labor relations, mainly in the degree to which

A) labor relations activities are centralized or decentralized.
B) labor relations are formal or informal.
C) labor relations are given a high priority or a low priority.
D) labor relations are internally or externally managed.
E) firms follow a polycentric or geocentric staffing policy.

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Employee compensation and labor relations are functions associated with human resource management.

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

A person's willingness to communicate is an important dimension in others-orientation, which was identified by Mendenhall and Oddou as a factor that predicts success in a foreign posting.

A U.S.-based company set up operations in Indonesia and determined that there wasn't a qualified applicant pool in Jakarta to fill its senior management positions. What staffing policy will the company most likely follow?

Takahashi Talent, a Japanese commercial advertising agency, has a policy of appointing the best person for the job in its various locations regardless of the candidate's nationality. Which staffing policy best describes Takahashi Talent's approach?

Discuss the cultural, language, and practical training that is used to help reduce expatriate failure.

According to Mendenhall and Oddou, what dimension refers to the relationship between the country of assignment and how well an expatriate adjusts to a particular posting?

For international firms, an ethnocentric staffing approach is compatible with a localization strategy.

Discuss the four dimensions that seem to predict success in a foreign posting introduced by Mendenhall and Oddou.

Discuss some of the reasons why a diverse workforce will improve performance of a company.

In terms of expatriate pay, what does a firm typically do when a reciprocal tax treaty is not in force?

Explain the difference between an expatriate and an inpatriate manager. Provide a hypothetical example of each.

Which staffing policy requires all the expatriates to be home-country nationals who are transferred abroad?

What staffing policy limits a firm's ability to reduce its use of expatriates?

What is repatriation? Why is it important?

Describe how management development programs can increase the value of human capital in an international business firm.

One disadvantage of an ethnocentric staffing policy is that it produces resentment in host-country nationals.

Ethnocentric staffing policies are in place when all key management positions are filled by host-country nationals.