Good managers of overseas operations require different skill sets than do domestic managers.
T/F - Answers True; Finding the right people to manage an organization can be difficult under
any circumstances, but it is especially difficult to find good managers of overseas operations.
Such positions require more and different skills than do purely domestic executive jobs.
Guest workers are especially welcomed in countries when the economy is stagnant. T/F -
Answers False; Guest workers provide the labor that host countries need, which is desirable as
long as the economies are growing. But when the economies slow, fewer workers are needed,
and problems develop. Unemployment increases among citizens, who then want the jobs that
are held by guest workers.
Many multinationals hire home-country students to work in host-country facilities because of
their knowledge of local language and culture. T/F - Answers False; Many multinationals try to
solve the business technique problem by hiring host-country students upon their graduation
from home-country business schools. However, while away from the host country attending
business school and indoctrination at headquarters, the HCNs may become distanced from the
developments and relationships back in their home country.
Under a regiocentric staffing policy, the disadvantages of using employees from the home or
host countries can sometimes be avoided by sending third-country nationals to fill management
posts. T/F - Answers True; The disadvantages often encountered when using employees from
the home or host country can sometimes be avoided by sending third-country nationals to fill
management posts.
The geocentric staffing approach is based on the home-country's frame of reference. T/F -
Answers False; The geocentric approach is based on ability and experience without considering
race or citizenship.
The loss by a country of its most intelligent and best-educated people, a phenomenon known as
brain drain, is usually due to the desire to seek improved economic circumstances and or better
professional opportunities. T/F - Answers TRUE
An expatriate is a person living outside his or her country of birth.
T/F - Answers FALSE; An expatriate is a person living outside his or her country of citizenship,
which is not necessarily the country of birth.
A company would use collective bargaining when purchasing supplies from a vendor.
T/F - Answers FALSE; Collective bargaining is the process in which a union represents the
interests of everyone in a bargaining unit (which may include both union members and
nonmembers) in negotiations with management.
, Under an ethnocentric staffing orientation, home-country nationals are selected for the firm's
key positions everywhere in the world. T/F - Answers TRUE; Under an ethnocentric staffing
orientation, people from the home country are developed for key positions everywhere in the
world.
More than one-third of the world's population age 15-24 live in which two developing countries?
Brazil and Argentina
Ghana and Nigeria
U.S. and Australia
India and China - Answers India and China
A local labor market is made up of
- a country's pool of people with the required skill set.
- the pool of employees with the necessary skills who are in surrounding nations.
- the pool of available employees with the necessary skills and who are within commuting
distance.
- the entire population of people in the local operating area. - Answers the pool of available
employees with the necessary skills and who are within commuting distance.
Many economic migrants are involved in what are sometimes referred to as "3-D" jobs—digital,
developmental, and demanding—which are well paid but that have inadequate numbers of
qualified host-country workers to satisfy demand. T/F - Answers False, its dirty degrading and
dangerous
Low birthrates and low levels of immigration are causing populations in many developed
countries to
decline.
explode.
increase.
stabilize. - Answers decline.
what is The movement of people from one country to another in search of jobs is called? -
Answers labor mobility.
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