1. What is the most commonly cited reason that employees refuse expatriate assignments?
A) money issues
B) career concerns of spouse
C) family concerns
D) health and safety issues
2. Tyco International is a highly diversified global firm with headquarters in New Jersey. Tyco manufactures a variety of products ranging from home security systems to automotive components. Tyco's 100,000 employees work from facilities located in more than 60 countries around the world. Tyco frequently sends American managers overseas to manage the firm's foreign facilities. The HR department is considering the idea of redesigning Tyco's expatriate support services program.
Which of the following, if true, best supports Tyco's decision to redesign its expatriate support services program?
A) The number of female executives at Tyco is significantly less than the national average for firms of the same size.
B) Competitors of Tyco provide managers with six months of language and cultural training prior to sending them abroad.
C) Over 40% of repatriated Tyco managers switch divisions within the firm upon returning from overseas assignments.
D) Nearly 20% of repatriated Tyco managers resign from the firm within one year of completing overseas assignments.
3. Barton & Green is an MNC based in the U.S. that makes a wide range of consumer cleaning products. Executives at the firm are considering the idea of outsourcing the company's IT infrastructure. Which of the following questions is the most relevant to Barton & Green's decision to outsource its IT infrastructure to a firm in India, TMC Enterprises?
A) What is the attitude of U.S. consumers about TMC Enterprises?
B) What is the financial health of TMC Enterprises?
C) What other firms use TMC Enterprises?
D) What type of operating system is primarily used by TMC Enterprises?
4. Which of the following terms refers to an approach to the compensation of expatriates that equalizes the standard of living between the host and home countries, plus compensation for inconvenience?
A) tax differential approach
B) balance sheet approach
C) ethnocentric approach
D) global staffing approach
5. Alliances in which two or more partners have different relative ownership shares in the new venture are called ________.
A) transmodal strategic alliances
B) equity strategic alliances
C) non-equity strategic alliances
D) cultural strategic alliances
6. According to research, ________ has been the most frequently cited reason for the failure of expatriate managers who work in foreign subsidiaries of U.S. or European companies.
A) lack of training at the beginning of the process
B) cultural incompatibility and insufficient language skills
C) inability of the spouse to adjust
D) lack of training during the repatriation part of the process.