2024 MAN6635 FINAL EXAM WITH
CORRECT ANSWERS
Cultural Empathy - CORRECT-ANSWERSTendency to empathize with the
feelings, thoughts, and behaviors of individuals with different cultural values
Open-Mindedness - CORRECT-ANSWERSTendency to have an open mind and
unprejudiced attitude toward other cultural values and norms
Emotional Stability - CORRECT-ANSWERSTendency to remain calm in the
kinds of stressful situations that can be encountered in foreign environments
Ethnocentric Staffing Approach - CORRECT-ANSWERSFill key managerial
positions with HQ staff
Polycentric Staffing Approach - CORRECT-ANSWERSFill key managerial
positions with locals
Global Staffing Approach - CORRECT-ANSWERSBest managers are recruited
from within or outside the company, regardless of nationality
Global (Ethnocentric Staffing) - CORRECT-ANSWERSHigh Integration, Low
Local Responsiveness
International (Ethnocentric Staffing) - CORRECT-ANSWERSLow Integration,
Low Local Responsiveness
Transnational (Global Staffing) - CORRECT-ANSWERSHigh Integration, High
Local Responsiveness
Multi-Domestic (Polycentric Staffing) - CORRECT-ANSWERSLow Integration,
High Local Responsiveness
International Business Strategy - CORRECT-ANSWERS•No overseas office or
operations
•Generally used for exporting, licensing, or subcontracting
Multi-domestic Business Strategy - CORRECT-ANSWERSSubsidiaries in
multiple countries operate independently within each country, independently
of operations in other countries, and often fairly independently of parent
company headquarters
, Global Business Strategy - CORRECT-ANSWERSUnified strategy implemented
for all countries regardless of their culture or national differences.
Transnational Business Strategy - CORRECT-ANSWERSFirms work hard to be
seen as a local firm that draws upon global expertise, technology, and
resources
Local hires or nationals - CORRECT-ANSWERSEmployees who are hired
locally
Domestic internationalists - CORRECT-ANSWERSEmployees who never leave
home country but conduct international business with customers, suppliers,
and colleagues in other countries via telephone, teleconference, e-mail etc.
International commuters - CORRECT-ANSWERSEmployees who live in one
country (typically their home country), but who work in another (host)
country and regularly commute across borders to perform aspects of their
work. They may live at home in one country yet commute on a daily or
weekly basis to another country to work.
Frequent business travelers - CORRECT-ANSWERSEmployees who, on a
frequent basis, take international trips that last a few days, weeks, or months
at a time. These international trips usually include travel to a variety of
countries or continents to visit MNE sites or customers.
Short-term international assignees - CORRECT-ANSWERSEmployees on
assignments that last less than one year but more than a few weeks
(increasingly being used to substitute for longer-term international
assignments and typically do not include the relocation of the employee's
family).
International assignees - CORRECT-ANSWERSThis is an international
assignment that lasts more than one year and includes full relocation. This is
the traditional expatriate and the focus of most research and surveys about
international employees. These international assignments many be
immediate term (12-24 months) or long-term (24 to 36 months).
Localized employees - CORRECT-ANSWERSSituation where the employee was
sent to work in a foreign country but hired as a local employee (with some
allowances for relocation). This may be because they really want to work in
that country, often because they marry a local spouse or for some other
reason want to spend the rest of their careers in that location. It may also
involve an international assignee who is converted to permanent local status
once the assignment period is over.
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