1. What is a good example of an ethnocentric strategy of global HRM?
a. A Japanese company that has an Italian as its CEO.
b. A US company that hires an American to run their Brazilian operations.
c. A German Company that hires a Portuguese manager to run the Portugal unit and a Spanish man to run the Spanish unit.
d. A Chinese company that hires a UK national to run its Jamaica unit (because Jamaica uses English as a formal language).
2. Which ones of the four examples below is an example of value-migration?
a. No one buys typewriters anymore, but they buy PCs even to type.
b. HP now produces laser printers that can accept emailed inputs as well.
c. Honda used its expertise in small engines to enter the lawn-mower market
d. Sony lost share in the video recorder market, but gained the camcorder market.
3. An industry is defined as:
a. A collection of firms that compete with one another in a single product market.
b. A collection of firms that exist in a particular geographical area (e.g. Spain).
c. A collection of firms that use similar distribution channels.
d. All of the above.