SHRM-SCP Practice Questions fully solved & updated.
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"Which strategy for international assignees best helps to improve their overall experience and reduce their sense of isolation?
Ensuring that assignees are equipped with communication platforms and technologies"
How does HR contribute to diverse location...
SHRM-SCP Practice Questions fully
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"Which strategy for international assignees best helps to improve their overall
experience and reduce their sense of isolation? - ANSWER- Ensuring that
assignees are equipped with communication platforms and technologies"
How does HR contribute to diverse locations in a multidomestic strategy? -
ANSWER- By coordinating subsidiary activities to ensure that culture and
policies are consistent with those of the home country, Local culture and values
are accommodated in a multidomestic strategy; still, there remains a need to
coordinate them with the overall organizational culture.
How does an understanding of global forces benefit HR practices in a traditional
organization? - ANSWER- Hyperconnectivity has changed the way employees
access information in the workplace.
How can an organization ensure a smooth repatriation of an employee after an
international assignment? - ANSWER- Provide assurance that skills and
experience attained during the assignment will be used as part of a new
assignment.
A multinational corporation is expanding quickly through acquisitions. It aims to
create efficiency and innovation by integrating all its operations. What might the
VP of HR advise the management committee in this case? - ANSWER- Budget
time and resources to revise policies and practices and train all personnel. One of
the challenges facing an organization that is seeking global integration of
acquired entities is that these entities have established their own policies and
processes and will adhere to them unless deliberate action is taken to create new,
integrated policies and procedures.
,A company expands its operations to deliver services outside its home country.
The CEO decides to hire local workforces for the new offices and tasks the VP of
HR with communicating this strategy to the organization. What benefit should the
VP of HR emphasize? - ANSWER- Deeper understanding of new markets.
Pursuing a global strategy with a local workforce allows the organization to
understand and respond to local preferences and practices.
What action should HR take to approach global assignments from a strategic-
systematic perspective? - ANSWER- Disseminate information, technology, and
values uniformly throughout the global organization.One of the most important
tasks is to ensure that communication and knowledge sharing are universal
throughout the organization.
A manager comes the HR director and complains about a recent global assignee.
The employee has been late on the first report deadline and is not meeting initial
goals. How should the HR director respond? - ANSWER- Explain to the manager
the process of cross-cultural adjustment and its effect on productivity.
Which of Perlmutter's orientations will allow HR to standardize talent staffing
plans for an MNC where there is a strong business lead? - ANSWER-
Regiocentric. In a regiocentric orientation, operations are managed regionally.
Communication is high within the region and less so between regions. However,
staffing practices that promote global approaches are encouraged.
Which is an example of reverse innovation? - ANSWER- Products created for or
by emerging economy markets that are then imported to developed economy
markets.
Which initiative is most likely to have the biggest impact to an organization's
local responsiveness globalization strategy? - ANSWER- Deploying strong
mentoring and talent management programs in host-countries. An local
responsiveness strategy commits an organization to achieving a greater reliance
on local expertise. This calls for increased investment in developing local talent
and creating a new class of local leaders.
A global firm is planning to take a polycentric approach to its philanthropic
programs. Which is the most likely outcome of taking this approach? - ANSWER-
Donations will be more aligned to local community needs.
According to the upstream/downstream strategic model what HR activities are
most likely to be placed at headquarters? - ANSWER- Workforce alignment. The
, upstream/downstream model considers it useful to localize downstream HR
activities (compensation, benefits, labor relations), placing them closer to HR
customers. Upstream functions (strategic planning, workforce alignment) should
be closer to corporate headquarters.
Which step moves an organization from being multinational to globalized? -
ANSWER- Accommodating a multidirectional flow of ideas. The organization's
information and knowledge need to be shared among all locations in a globalized
organization. Acquisitions in other countries could make an organization
multinational, but to become a truly globalized organization, ideas, goods, and
products must flow in many directions.
Which best describes a company with a polycentric approach to globalization? -
ANSWER- Local cultural norms are understood and implemented locally. In the
polycentric orientation, entities are allowed a large measure of independence as
long as they are profitable and may adapt to local culture and legal compliance as
needed.
How does an understanding of Perlmutter's orientations provide HR with a
blueprint for developing effective global staffing strategies? - ANSWER- Staffing
strategies need to include an understanding of the relationship between
headquarters and subsidiaries.
Which situation is most likely to cause reverse culture shock? - ANSWER-
Repatriation without enough notice.A multinational corporation is hiring skilled
workers who have left their countries because of civil unrest and natural
catastrophes. In some cases as many as a hundred new employees may have
emigrated from the same or neighboring towns.
How might the CHRO respond to this situation? - ANSWER- Offer cultural training
for both managers and their new employees.The head of HR must consider the
needs and effects of this new workforce. Managers will be more effective if they
understand their employees' cultures, and employees will feel more engaged and
committed to the employer if they understand the host country's culture.
What is one of the three considerations for understanding global forces? -
ANSWER- While the effects of a given global force are also global, their impact
may be felt uniquely by different cultures, industries, and organizations.
What term describes a web of interconnectedness or the movement of people
(labor) and knowledge (technology) across borders? - ANSWER- Globalization
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