ACTUAL Questions and CORRECT
Answers
What activity in international human resource would not be required in a domestic environment?
- CORRECT ANSWER - Tax equalization
An expatriate - CORRECT ANSWER - Is an employee transferred out of their home base
to the firm's international operation.
Which of the following is not a category of an employee in an international firm? - CORRECT
ANSWER - Multi-country national
Which department of an organization is the major user of language translation services? -
CORRECT ANSWER - Human resources
Tax equalization policies concerning expatriates are designated to: - CORRECT
ANSWER - Ensure no tax incentives are associated with any particular international
assignment.
The direct costs of international assignment failures can be as high as __ times the costs of those
for similar failure in a domestic assignment: - CORRECT ANSWER - Three
One major difference between domestic and international HRM is - CORRECT
ANSWER - Tax equalization
Which of the following is not a function of internal resource management? - CORRECT
ANSWER - Government regulations
Which of the following is not a major external factor that influences IHRM? - CORRECT
ANSWER - Regulatory requirements
,Cultural difference is not necessarily equivalent to: - CORRECT ANSWER - National
differences
A multi domestic industry is: - CORRECT ANSWER - One in which competition in each
country is essentially independent of other countries
Examples of a global industry include all of the following except: - CORRECT
ANSWER - Insurance
Series of linked domestic industries in which rivals compete against each other on a worldwide
basis is: - CORRECT ANSWER - Global Industry
Emnic refers to which kind of specific aspect of concepts or behaviours? - CORRECT
ANSWER - Culture
What is a key driver for firms seeking international markets? - CORRECT ANSWER -A
small home market
Which ratio is not part of "index of transnationality"? - CORRECT ANSWER - Foreign
debt to total debt
Which of the following is a global mindset? - CORRECT ANSWER - To formulate and
implement HR policies that develop globally oriented staff.
All of the following is a difference between international and domestic HR - CORRECT
ANSWER - Less involvement in employee lives
An asymmetric event is - CORRECT ANSWER - Terrorist attack on 9/11
, As foreign subsidiaries matures the local HR activities: - CORRECT ANSWER - Have
broadening responsibilities
Which three dimensions are presented in Morgan's model of IHRM? - CORRECT
ANSWER - Types of employees, countries and human resource activities.
Differences between domestic and international HRM include: - CORRECT ANSWER -
The cultural environment, the extent of reliance of the multi-national on its home country or
domestic market and the attitudes of senior management.
Senior managers with little international experience: - CORRECT ANSWER - Assume
that there is a great deal of transferability between domestic and international HRM practices.
In Porter's value-chain model: - CORRECT ANSWER - HRM is described as a support
activity
Successful internationalizing the HR function require all except: - CORRECT ANSWER -
Global mindset
HRM in the multinational context contains an overlap between elements of: - CORRECT
ANSWER - Cross-cultural management, comparable human resource and industrial
relation systems.
HRM activities include all of the below EXCEPT: - CORRECT ANSWER - Personal
family planning
A Japanese citizen working in Hong Jong for a Japanese multinational would be classified as: -
CORRECT ANSWER - A parent country national (PCN)
International HRM is reflected in - CORRECT ANSWER - The need for a broader
perspective