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bus_325_quiz_6.docxWhat can be described as the strongest stressors in expatriate “overseas” work environment?
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Uncertainty regarding culture differences and language
Uncertainty regarding objectives, goals and role requirements
Uncertainty regarding job retention
Uncertainty of who to report to and who is in the line of command
The dilemma of cultural adaptation of a performance evaluation could be overcome by:
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The host-country national assisting in devising a suitable system for appraisal
Parent company not evaluating the employees
TCN developing the performance appraisal system
Offshoring the performance evaluation
The turbulence of the global environment requires that long-term goals be
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Inflexible to major environment events
Realistic and in line with corporate goals
Ambitious to meet the growing needs of the organization
Flexible to respond to market contingencies
Individuals are likely to blame lack of job discretion on the following:
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The culture, role, and organization
The organization, the job and the location
The job, location and culture differences
Culture, the job and the Chief Executive Office
Which country tends to have administrators with a high level of legal expertise?
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Sweden
Germany
France
UK
If the PCN is perceived to identify too closely with the host subsidiary concerns:
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The employee is perceived to be “going native”
The employee is sent on vacation
The employee is removed from the subsidiary
The employee is considered to be doing his or her job
A USA manager of German nationality working for a Dutch multinational company is assigned to a position in Indonesia. Which country is considered the host country?
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USA
Dutch
Germany
Indonesia
Which country has a strong tradition of collective bargaining?
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Danish
USA
Japan
Germany
What is a strategic international assignment?
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A short-term knowledge transferor activity
High profile activities that focus on developing a balanced global perspective for the employee
Assignment that involves the two-way transfer of existing processes and practices
Assignment that focuses on in-country performances and the acquisition of local understanding
In which country do managers find it difficult to directly point out a work-related problem or error by a subordinate?
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USA
China
Japan
Indonesia
What are the five variables affecting expatriate performance?
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Compensation package, task, HQ support, host environment and culture adjustment
Legal, economic, culture adjustment, physical and task
Technical, societal, compensations, HQ support and host environment
Compensation, task, cultural environment, HQ support and legal
The employee who oversees and directs the entire foreign operations is:
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Expatriate
Structure reproducer
HR manager
Chief executive officer
Market development in foreign subsidiaries is generally slower and more difficult to achieve without:
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Supporting infrastructure of the parent
Formal control mechanism
Expatriates from the parent organization
Cross-culture training
Web-based platforms of human resource information system that include performance management modules:
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Create more performance management problems than they solve
May be seen as eliminating the separations of time, distance and culture experienced by multinational firms
May be seen as a response to the separations of time, distance and culture experienced by multinational firms
May be seen as increasing and making more obvious the separations of time, distance and culture experienced by multinational firms
A major challenge to global performance management is:
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How to determine performance criteria and goals related to non-standard assignments especially virtual assignees
How to provide performance management forms to all employees
How to translate parent country forms into local languages
How to determine who is actually filling out the forms in local subsidiaries
