International HRM_Recruitment

Expatriate managers who are citizens of the country where the multinational corporation is headquartered.

• Home country nationals

• Host country nationals

• Third country nationals

• None of the above

Sony believes that US local citizens are the best qualified for the job, as opposed to Japanese managers, because they already have a working knowledge of the language and culture, and it may be difficult for Sony to understand pre- ferred styles otherwise.

• Ethnocentric approach

• Polycentric approach

• Geocentric approach

• Global approach

What is a reason(s) for using home-country nationals?

• Provide technical expertise and start up operations.

• The need to maintain and facilitate organizational coordination and control

• Provide the company’s more promising managers with international experience to equip them better for more responsible positions

• All are correct

Which statement is false?

• Regulations shielding local employees from international competition may create a sense of entitlement and result in low productivity.

• In joint ventures, TCNs can demonstrate a global or transnational image and bring unique cross-cultural skills to the relationship.

• The unavailability of managerial talent in the host country is the reason for polycentric approach to recruitment.

• In Brazil, for example, two-thirds of the employees in any foreign subsidiary traditionally had to be Brazilian nationals.

Many U.S. MNCs hire English or Scottish managers for top positions at subsidiaries in former British colonies such as Jamaica, India, the West Indies, and Kenya.

• a) Ethnocentric approach

• b) Polycentric approach

• c) Global approach

• B and C

The term "expat" means "out of the country" and refers to PCN and TCN.

• True

• False

• Don't know

Which is the criteria in selecting expats?

• Ability to adapt and technical competence

• Spouse and family adaptability and human relations skills

• Desire to serve overseas and previous overseas experience

• All of the above

Which statement is false?

• Married couples without children at home or those with non-teenage children are probably the most willing to move.

• Individuals most committed to their professional careers and to their

  employing organizations are prone to be more willing to work as expatriates.

• Unmarried employees are less willing than any other group to accept expat assignments.

• Prior international experience appears associated with willingness to work as an expatriate.

Which is not a drawback of using PCN?

• Little development of HCNs

• Less firm-wide coordination

• PCN/family adaptation problems

• Costly to relocate family

For the Japanese, “experience in the company,” reflecting their traditional long-term employment contract is highly rated. “Personality factors” are given a far greater rating in the United States companies than those in Japan.

• True

• False