MAN 6635 Final Exam-Questions &
Correct Answers -A+ Grade
Polycentric Staffing Approach - CORRECT ANSWERS-Fill key managerial positions
with locals
Appropriate when company wants to "act local"
Advantages
- Local managers familiar with local culture, language, and ways of doing business
- Local managers have local contacts
- Local managers more likely to be accepted by people inside and outside the
subsidiary
- Usually less expensive than sending manager from HQ
Disadvantages
- Difficulty coordinating activities and goals between subsidiary and HQ
- Potentially conflicting loyalties of local manager
- HQ managers of international firms don't get international experience
Global Staffing Approach - CORRECT ANSWERS-Best managers are recruited from
within or outside the company, regardless of nationality
Very well might not be from home or host country
Advantages
- Largest pool of qualified applicants
- Applicants tend to have
cultural flexibility and adaptability
bilingual or multilingual skills
- Perceived by employees as acceptable compromises between HQ and local
managers
Cheaper to transfer employees from some countries than others
Disadvantages
- Lack of managers who want to work all around the world
- Conflicting requirements of host governments
- If they'll go anywhere for your company, what's to keep them from going to another
company?
Business Strategies of MNEs & Staffing - CORRECT ANSWERS-Global business
strategy = ethnocentric staffing
, International business strategy = ethnocentric staffing
Multi-Domestic business strategy = polycentric staffing
Transnational business strategy = global staffing
International Assignees/Expatriate - CORRECT ANSWERS-When parent country
nationals are transferred to another country to work in a subsidiary or other type of
operation of the MNE for more than one year, they are generally referred to as
expatriates or international assignees
Recruitment - CORRECT ANSWERS-Searching for and attracting qualified applicants
to create an applicant pool
Selection - CORRECT ANSWERS-Gathering and analyzing information about
applicants in order to select the most suitable person or persons for the job
Repatriation - CORRECT ANSWERS-The process of bringing an international assignee
and their family back home from foreign assignment
3 goals of recruitment - CORRECT ANSWERS-- Attract many applicants.
- Attract quality applicants who "fit" the position.
- Increase the likelihood of acceptances
Internal Recruitment Sources - CORRECT ANSWERS-For All Jobs:
- Internal Job Posting
For International Assignment Specifically:
- Global Talent Management Inventories
- In-House Global Leadership Programs
- Former/Current Expatriates
- International Succession Planning Programs
- Nominations from supervisors or other expatriates
Positives and negative of recruiting from within - CORRECT ANSWERS-Positives:
- Creates a well-known sample of applicants
- Reduces labor costs
Allows vacancies to be filled quickly
- Enhances employee development
- Enhances company reputation
Negatives:
- Creates another vacancy
- Being good at a job doesn't mean you'll necessarily be good at supervising that job or
doing that job abroad
Correct Answers -A+ Grade
Polycentric Staffing Approach - CORRECT ANSWERS-Fill key managerial positions
with locals
Appropriate when company wants to "act local"
Advantages
- Local managers familiar with local culture, language, and ways of doing business
- Local managers have local contacts
- Local managers more likely to be accepted by people inside and outside the
subsidiary
- Usually less expensive than sending manager from HQ
Disadvantages
- Difficulty coordinating activities and goals between subsidiary and HQ
- Potentially conflicting loyalties of local manager
- HQ managers of international firms don't get international experience
Global Staffing Approach - CORRECT ANSWERS-Best managers are recruited from
within or outside the company, regardless of nationality
Very well might not be from home or host country
Advantages
- Largest pool of qualified applicants
- Applicants tend to have
cultural flexibility and adaptability
bilingual or multilingual skills
- Perceived by employees as acceptable compromises between HQ and local
managers
Cheaper to transfer employees from some countries than others
Disadvantages
- Lack of managers who want to work all around the world
- Conflicting requirements of host governments
- If they'll go anywhere for your company, what's to keep them from going to another
company?
Business Strategies of MNEs & Staffing - CORRECT ANSWERS-Global business
strategy = ethnocentric staffing
, International business strategy = ethnocentric staffing
Multi-Domestic business strategy = polycentric staffing
Transnational business strategy = global staffing
International Assignees/Expatriate - CORRECT ANSWERS-When parent country
nationals are transferred to another country to work in a subsidiary or other type of
operation of the MNE for more than one year, they are generally referred to as
expatriates or international assignees
Recruitment - CORRECT ANSWERS-Searching for and attracting qualified applicants
to create an applicant pool
Selection - CORRECT ANSWERS-Gathering and analyzing information about
applicants in order to select the most suitable person or persons for the job
Repatriation - CORRECT ANSWERS-The process of bringing an international assignee
and their family back home from foreign assignment
3 goals of recruitment - CORRECT ANSWERS-- Attract many applicants.
- Attract quality applicants who "fit" the position.
- Increase the likelihood of acceptances
Internal Recruitment Sources - CORRECT ANSWERS-For All Jobs:
- Internal Job Posting
For International Assignment Specifically:
- Global Talent Management Inventories
- In-House Global Leadership Programs
- Former/Current Expatriates
- International Succession Planning Programs
- Nominations from supervisors or other expatriates
Positives and negative of recruiting from within - CORRECT ANSWERS-Positives:
- Creates a well-known sample of applicants
- Reduces labor costs
Allows vacancies to be filled quickly
- Enhances employee development
- Enhances company reputation
Negatives:
- Creates another vacancy
- Being good at a job doesn't mean you'll necessarily be good at supervising that job or
doing that job abroad
