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51. What is the advantage of a geocentric staffing policy?
52. Which of the following is an advantage of adopting a geocentric staffing approach?
53. Most countries require extensive documentation if they wish to hire a foreign national instead of a local
national. Which of the following staffing approaches is most likely to be affected by this?
54. Which of the following is a disadvantage of adopting a geocentric staffing approach?
55. Which of the following staffing approaches is compatible with an international strategy?
56. Which of the following strategies is compatible with a geocentric staffing policy?
57. Which of the following staffing policies relies extensively on the use of expatriate managers?
58. Which of the following refers to a subset of expatriates who are citizens of a foreign country working in the
home country of their multinational employer?
59. Yuriko, a citizen of Japan, was working as a manager in the Japanese branch of an American firm. Due to
her efficiency, she was assigned a temporary posting at the headquarters of the firm in America. In this
situation, she is known as a(n):
60. Which of the staffing policies requires all the expatriates to be home-country nationals who are transferred
abroad?
61. According to R. L. Tung's study, which of the following is the most important reason for expatriate failures
for U.S. multinationals?
62. According to the results of a seminal study by R. L. Tung, what was the major reason for expatriate failure
among European expatriates?
63. According to the results of a seminal study by R. L. Tung, the top reason why Japanese expatriate managers
fail is:
64. According to Mendenhall and Oddou, what is the major problem in the selection of appropriate candidates
for overseas assignments in many firms?
65. According to Mendenhall and Oddou, which of the following dimensions that predicts success in a foreign
posting strengthens an expatriate's self-esteem, self-confidence, and mental well-being?
66. According to Mendenhall and Oddou, which of the following is a dimension that predicts success and
allows expatriates to adapt their interests in food, sport, and music?
67. According to Mendenhall and Oddou's dimensions that predict success in a foreign posting, relationship
development refers to:
68. According to Mendenhall and Oddou's dimensions that predict success in a foreign posting, which of the
following is a result of the attribute of others-orientation?
69. According to Mendenhall and Oddou, which of the following provides an expatriate the ability to
understand why people of other countries behave the way they do?
70. According to Mendenhall and Oddou, perceptual ability refers to:
71. According to Mendenhall and Oddou, expatriate managers who tend to treat foreign nationals as if they
were home-country nationals lack the dimension of:
72. According to Mendenhall and Oddou, which of the following dimensions refers to the relationship between
the country of assignment and how well an expatriate adjusts to a particular posting?
73. Amanda, an American manager, is successfully adjusting in a country where the culture is extremely
male-dominated. According to Mendenhall and Oddou, which of the following dimensions that predict success
in foreign postings is involved in this situation?
74. Poor health care and housing standards and inhospitable climate make it difficult for expatriates to adjust to
a particular posting. According to Mendenhall and Oddou's four dimensions that predict success in a foreign
posting, which of the following is required in this situation?
75. Which of the following is an additional and difficult dimension to the long-standing problem of expatriate
failure due to the inability of the spouse to adjust?
76. Which of the following is intended to build a manager's skills over his or her career with a firm?
77. In terms of training and management development, which of the following is aimed at helping the expatriate
manager and family ease themselves into day-to-day life in the host country?
78. Repatriation refers to:
79. Which of the following strategies is pursued by international businesses that use management development
for a strong unifying corporate culture and informal management networks to assist in coordination and
control?
80. During performance appraisals, two groups evaluate the performance of expatriate managers—host-nation
managers and home-office managers. This is aimed at avoiding the problem of:
81. Which of the following steps is true of bias in performance evaluations?
82. According to the survey undertaken by Towers Watson, which of the following countries provides the
highest pay to CEOs?
83. Which of the following staffing policies is followed by firms that can reduce the issue of compensation to
that of how much home-country expatriates should be paid?
84. Which of the following staffing policies is pursued by firms where the lack of managers' mobility among
national operations implies that the pay for expatriates should be kept country-specific?
85. Which of the following staffing policies is concerned with the need for a cadre of international managers
that may include many different nationalities?
86. Which of the following staffing policies is pursued by a firm where considerable resentment is caused
among foreign nationals who are members of the international cadre and work with U.S. nationals, if pay is not
equalized?
87. Which of the following is the most common approach to expatriate pay, which equalizes purchasing power
across countries so employees can enjoy the same living standard in their foreign posting that they enjoyed at
home?
88. In the context of expatriate compensation, what is the role of a balance sheet approach?
89. Which of the following staffing policies limits a firm's ability to reduce its use of expatriates?
90. Which of the following refers to the extra pay an expatriate receives for working outside his or her country
of origin?
