Deck 1: Introduction

Question 1

The HR department is the major user of language translation services.

Answer 1

True

Question 2

An inpatriate is an employee transferred out of the home base into the firm's international organization.

Answer 2

False

Question 3

The IHR department does not get involved in the employee's personal lives such as marital status and children when considered for assignments.

Answer 3

False

Question 4

Global mindset is necessary for the success of an international company.

Question 5

The US had 8 companies in the top 30 multinationals ranked by the transnational index.

Question 6

Cross- culture management is examining human behavior within organizations from an international perspective.

Question 7

A domestic HRM is involved with employees within one national boundary.

Question 8

Local HR activities,such as human resource planning and staffing,changes as a foreign subsidiary matures.

Question 9

Compensation and benefit programs are not an activity of internal human resource management.

Question 10

Cultural awareness is reflected by knowing that local employees feel an obligation to employ extended family even if they are unqualified for the position.

Question 11

A large home market is one of the key drivers for seeking a new international market.

Question 12

Human considerations are as important as financial and marketing criteria in making decisions about multinational ventures.

Question 13

If a firm is in a multidomestic industry,the role of HR department will most likely be more domestic in structure and orientation.

Question 14

Awareness of cultural differences is not essential for the HR manager at corporate headquarters.It is only important for expatriate employees as well as those at the host location.

Question 15

Multidomestic industries is one in which competition in each country is essentially independent of competition in other countries.

Question 16

Less developed countries tend to have cheaper labor but more government regulations.

Question 17

Culture shock is a phenomenon experiences by people who move across cultures.

Question 18

The way diversity is managed within a single national context should transfer to a multinational context without modification.

Question 19

Multinational organizations need to strive for consistency in the ways of managing people on a worldwide basis in order to build,maintain and develop their corporate identity.

Question 20

The nationality of an employee is not a major factor in determining the person "category" in an international firm.

Question 21

What is a key driver for firms seeking international markets?

A) A small home market
B) Tax regulations
C) Large home markets
D) Managerial incompetence

Question 22

Which of the following is not a major external factor that influences IHRM?

A) The state of the economy
B) Type of government
C) Generally accepted practices of doing business
D) Regulatory requirements

Question 23

One major difference between domestic and international HRM is:

A) Staff training
B) Tax equalization
C) housing relocation
D) risk

Question 24

Cultural difference is not necessarily equivalent to:

A) Social Factors
B) Values and beliefs
C) National Differences
D) Shared and recognized ways of looking at the world

Question 25

Examples of a global industry include all of the following except:

A) Commercial air craft
B) Semi-conductors
C) Copiers
D) Insurance

Question 26

Series of linked domestic industries in which rivals compete against each other on a worldwide basis is:

A) Multidomestic industry
B) Global industry
C) Conglometric industry
D) Automobile industry

Question 27

Tax equalization policies concerning expatriates are designed to :

A) Ensure no tax incentives are associated with any particular international assignment
B) Ensure taxes are paid
C) Ensure employees are aware of tax responsibilities
D) Keeps records up to date

Question 28

All of the following is a difference between international and domestic HR except:

A) Risk exposure
B) More external influences
C) More HR activities
D) Less involvement in employee lives

Question 29

The direct costs of international assignment failures can be as high as ___times the costs of those for similar failure in a domestic assignment:

A) Five
B) Three
C) Ten
D) Eight

Question 30

An expatriate:

A) Is an employee transferred out of their home base to the firm's international operation
B) Is an employee transferred into a parents organization
C) Is an employee who understands international business operations
D) Is an employee who has works in more than one country

Question 31

Which department of an organization is the major user of language translation services?

A) Tax
B) Shipping
C) Human resources
D) Operations

Question 32

Which ratio is not part of" index of transnationality"?

A) Foreign assets to total assets
B) Foreign sales to total sales
C) Foreign debt to total debt
D) Foreign employment to total employment

Question 33

Which of the following is a global mindset?

A) Focus on domestic issues
B) Minimize differences between international and domestic environments
C) Transferability between domestic and international HRM practices
D) To formulate and implement HR policies that develop globally oriented staff

Question 34

What activity in international human resource would not be required in a domestic environment?

A) Staff orientation
B) Tax equalization
C) Terrorism considerations
D) Relocation assistance

Question 35

Emnic refers to which kind of specific aspect of concepts or behaviors?

A) Language
B) Culture
C) Country
D) History

Question 36

Which of the following is not a function of internal resource management?

A) Staffing
B) Training and development
C) Government regulations
D) Compensation

Question 37

It is a correct assumption that culture is usually used as a synonym for nation or national difference represents culture differences.

Question 38

A multidomestic industry is:

A) One in which competition in each country is essentially independent of other countries
B) One in which a firm competitive position in one's country is significantly influenced by its position in other countries.
C) One in which domestic products are not sole
D) One in which many products are sold

Question 39

An asymmetric event is:

A) Terrorist attack on 9/11
B) London 2012 Olympics
C) HR activities
D) Weekly staff training

Question 40

Which of the following is not a category of an employee in an international firm?

A) Third -country national
B) Host-country national
C) Parent-country national
D) Multi-country national

Question 41

As a foreign subsidiary matures:

A) The local HR unit's responsibilities for planning,training and compensation would broaden
B) The responsibilities of planning,training and compensation would narrow
C) The local HR unit's responsibilities for planning,training and compensation would stay the same
D) The local HR unit's responsibility for planning,training and compensation would end

Question 42

A Japanese citizen working in Hong Kong for a Japanese multinational would be classified as:

A) A host country national (HCN)
B) A third country national (TCH)
C) A parent country national (PCN)
D) A related country national (RCN)

Question 43

What are the 3 categories of employees in an international firm?

Question 44

What is the difference between a multidomestic industry and a global industry?

Question 45

As foreign subsidiaries matures the local HR activities:

A) Have broadening responsibilities
B) Revert to the home office
C) decrease as government relations are understood
D) Stay largely the same

Question 46

What are at least 2 types of risk exposure that international companies incur that domestic companies are not as liable to incur?

Question 47

Differences between domestic and international HRM include:

A) The cultural environment,the extent of reliance of the multinational on its home country or domestic market and the attitudes of senior management
B) The industry,the technology employed and communication capabilities
C) The cultural environment,the industry and the technology employed
D) The cultural environment,the attitudes of senior management and the organizations authority structure

Question 48

Why is an awareness of cultural differences important in an international company?

Question 49

Human Resource Management (HRM)activities include all of the below EXCEPT:

A) Human resource planning
B) Performance management
C) Personal family planning
D) Training and development

Question 50

In Porter's value-chain model:

A) HRM is described as a primary activity
B) HRM is described as a support activity
C) HRM is not mentioned as an activity
D) HRM is described as an incidental activity

Question 51

Senior managers with little international experience:

A) Are very successful in multinational operations
B) Assume that there is no transferability between domestic and international HARM practices
C) Assume that there is a great deal of transferability between domestic and international HRM practices
D) Are usually very eager to take on international responsibilities

Question 52

Which three dimensions are presented in Morgan's model of IHRM?

A) Types of employees,countries and industries
B) Types of employees,countries and human resource activities
C) Types of products,industries and human resource activity
D) Types of employees,labor problems and human resource activity

Question 53

International HRM is reflected in:

A) The need for a narrower perspective
B) The need for a short term perspective
C) The need for a judgmental perspective
D) The need for a broader perspective

Question 54

What are the 3 broad approaches for international human resource management and how do they relate to each other?

Question 55

HRM in the multinational context contains an overlap between elements of:

A) Cross-cultural management and leadership
B) Cross-cultural management and strategic management
C) Strategic management,comparable human resource and industrial relations systems
D) Cross-cultural management,comparable human resource and industrial relations systems

Question 56

Successful internationalizing the HR function require all except:

A) International mindset of senior management
B) Right people to manage
C) Global mindset
D) International taxation procedures