1. What does job design have to do with an employee’s motivation? How might you use this theory of motivation with a low performer who works for you?
2. Describe the impact of supply uncertainty and on safety inventory.
3. One of the domestic issues in international human resource management is that firms have to:
a. provide a hardship premium to all local employees as part of their pay packages.
b. replace host-country nationals with parent-country nationals for nonmanagerial jobs as the former are expensive to employ.
c. provide equal compensation to all workers, irrespective of their place of work.
d. invest additional money to bring the workforce in underdeveloped countries up to the expected performance standards.
4. Tactical planning:
A. Involves enabling objectives for meeting Strategic goals.
B. Strategic objectives for meeting operational needs.
C. Operational goals involving specific enabling objectives.
D. Involves tactical long-term operational needs.
5. The primary difference between Tactical planning and Strategic planning is that Strategic planning focuses on broad general approaches to outcomes and Tactical planning is involved with specific action items to achieve outcomes.
A. TRUE.
B. FALSE.