A firm with a(n) _____ staffing policy will fill all key management positions with parent-country nationals. 

An expatriate's base salary normally: 

An organization's norms and value systems are known as its _____. 

Which of the following is mainly concerned with the selection of employees for particular jobs? 

A manager might be sent on several foreign postings over a number of years to build his/her cross-cultural sensitivity and experience as part of a management development program. 

An expatriate manager is a citizen of one country who is working abroad in one of the firm's subsidiaries.

Base pay in most firms is set with regard to global market conditions. 

Cultural myopia refers to a firm's failure to understand host-country cultural differences that require different approaches to marketing and management. 

Expatriate failure refers to a manager's failure to understand host-country cultural norms and values, leading to ineffective work. 

HRM professionals have a critically important strategic role. 

The most attractive staffing policy for large MNCs is the ethnocentric approach.

A citizen of Japan who moves to the United States to work at Microsoft would be classified as an inpatriate. 

A firm's performance appraisal systems are an important element of its control systems.

Labor unions generally prefer it if an international business keeps highly skilled tasks in its home country and farms out only low-skilled tasks to foreign plants. 

A(n) _____ staffing policy seeks the best people for key jobs throughout the organization, regardless of nationality. 

Broadly speaking, a geocentric approach is compatible with:

Historically, most international businesses have been: 

Firms pursuing a(n) _____ strategy increasingly are using management development as a strategic tool. 

_____ makes it difficult to evaluate the performance of expatriate managers objectively.