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Opportunities & Challenges in HRM MCQ

Opportunities & Challenges in HRM MCQ

1. Which is typically true of short-term expatriate assignments?

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Correct Answer: The company covers travel expenses only to and from the location

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2. What is one reason short-term expatriate assignments might occur on a cyclical basis?

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Correct Answer: High seasonal demand

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3. What is the benefit of short-term expatriate assignments over long-term ones?

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Correct Answer: The diminished disruptive effect on employees and their families

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4. Some organizations assign expatriates and their families a(n) ______ who will stay in touch with them throughout the assignment and help them adjust to and decode the new culture.

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Correct Answer: Cultural trainer

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5. Which of the following is the biggest influence over an expatriate’s cultural adjustment?

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Correct Answer: Spouse adjustment

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6. One benefit of expatriate assignments is their role in ______.

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Correct Answer: Diffusing knowledge

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7. In ______, the prevalence of works councils affects labor law and constrains the way separations and discipline are approached.

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Correct Answer: Europe

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8. In many parts of the world, ______ is/are mandated.

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Correct Answer: Bonuses

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9. Which is an important decision organizations must make regarding recruitment and selection when they operate overseas?

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Correct Answer: The appropriate mix of parent country, host country, and third country nationals to employ

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10. When compared with other countries, the United States’ labor union membership as a percentage of the workforce is ______ in the world.

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Correct Answer: Among the lowest

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11. France offers employees the “right to disconnect,” which means the right to ______.

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Correct Answer: Establish hours in which they are not required to check or answer e-mail

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12. Compared to other countries, the United States has more ______.

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Correct Answer: Employer-based terms

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13. Varying a company’s practices in consideration of the cultural environment is called ______.

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Correct Answer: Local differentiation

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14. Which of these involves moving some company operations to another company?

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Correct Answer: Outsourcing

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15. ______ organizations have operations in multiple countries but do not consider any one country their center of operations.

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Correct Answer: Multinational

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16. A situation in which expatriates return to their country of origin and find that their country of origin does not feel like home anymore i s known as _____ .

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Correct Answer: Reverse culture shock

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17. Reverse culture shock is a situation in which expatriates ______ of origin find that their country of origin does not feel like home anymore.

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Correct Answer: return to their country

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18. Outsourcing Moving some operations of the organization to a ______ .

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Correct Answer: different organization

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19. Organizationally assigned expatriate is When an expat is sent by the organization for a predetermined time to work in an overseas operation

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Correct Answer: True

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20. When companies produce physical goods or perform some of their operations overseas it is known as ______ .

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Correct Answer: Offshoring

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21. Multinational companies operating in multiple countries but with clearly designated headquarters in _______ .

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Correct Answer: their home country

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22. Local differentiation is When organizations vary their HR practices in consideration of the local environment

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Correct Answer: True

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23. A joint venture involves _______ coming together and investing to create a new company

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Correct Answer: two companies

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24. International Companies that export or import, but their investments are within one home country

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Correct Answer: True

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25. The comfort felt with interacting with local individuals inside or outside work is known as ______ .

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Correct Answer: Interactional adjustment

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26. Define Inpatriates:

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Correct Answer: Host-country employees working in headquarter locations

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27. Global mindset are Individuals who are open to learning about ________ .

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Correct Answer: different cultures

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28. When a company standardizes its HR practices around the world is known as

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Correct Answer: Global integration

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29. A person who is living and working in a different country than their country of origin is known as

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Correct Answer: Expatriate

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30. Culture shock is the feeling of disorientation individuals experience when they enter a ______ .

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Correct Answer: new culture

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31. Cultural adjustment including factors such as transportation, entertainment, health system, education, and general living conditions.

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Correct Answer: True

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32. A plan that provides some services (such as paying for movers and travel expenses) to all expatriates is known as ______ .

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Correct Answer: Coreflex plan

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