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Miguel, a citizen of Mexico, is working as a manager in the Mexico City branch of an American firm. Due to his efficiency, he was assigned a temporary posting at the headquarters of the firm in Canton, Ohio. In this situation, he is known as a(n)

A) repatriate.
B) inpatriate.
C) third-country national.
D) expatriate failure.
E) parent-country national.

F) B) and C)
G) A) and D)

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Japanese automakers have realized that ________ can be a source of competitive advantage, and, as a result, Japanese firms bargain directly with local labor unions to incorporate this into the work practice before agreeing to operations.

A) low-cost products
B) how work is organized
C) customization
D) technology transfer
E) how employees are paid

F) C) and D)
G) B) and C)

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International trade secretariats have been highly successful in linking national unions in the automobile and steel industries.

When James accepted the job in England, he and his family received information on the best roads to take to get their children to school, where to shop for groceries, and referrals for medical and dental care. What kind of training did they receive?

Marcie Conroy of Feel-Better Pharmaceuticals works in the human resource department and is responsible for developing criteria for matching prospective employees to available jobs. What is Marcie responsible for?

Citizens of a foreign country working in the home country of their multinational employer are known as repatriates.

What is an advantage of a polycentric staffing approach?

According to Mendenhall and Oddou's dimensions that predict success in a foreign posting, what is a result of the attribute of others-orientation?

According to the survey by Towers Watson, which country provides the highest pay to CEOs?

Mallory, an American manager working in the Middle East, is successfully adjusting to a new country where the culture is extremely male-dominated. According to Mendenhall and Oddou, what dimension that predicts success in foreign postings does Mallory demonstrate?

Bringing managers together in one location for extended periods and rotating them through different jobs in several countries help a firm build an informal management network.

An international firm demonstrates cultural myopia when it adopts cross-cultural literacy policies and understands cultural differences in a host country.

What staffing policy relies extensively on the use of expatriate managers?

One impediment to cooperation between national unions is the

Harris was promoted to the international post because he had the ability to "put himself in another person's shoes" and understand why people in other countries behave the way they do. Which of Mendenhall and Oddou's dimensions does Harris display?

Countries such as the United States and China require extensive documentation if firms wish to hire a foreign national instead of a local national. This is an important consideration for Desert Plain Wines, a Chilean wine maker, as it decides on its staffing policy for international expansion. What staffing approach would be most affected by this type of limitation?

Red Brands, a Singapore-based agricultural commodities company, continuously expands into Africa to source and process commodities. The company finds that many of these countries lack advanced higher education institutions, and thus decides to pursue an ethnocentric senior staffing policy in Africa. This is most likely because the management of Red Brands

The expatriate managers of Je Parle, a French leader in specialty perfumes, followed the same domestic marketing and management practices in foreign markets as their colleagues did in France. As a result, Je Parle's international expansion failed because the company suffers from

According to the results of a seminal study by R. L. Tung, the top reason why Japanese expatriate managers fail is

As an enticement to accept a new job position within her company, Millie is offered a $10,000 "bonus" if she transfers from the New York office to the Tokyo office. This "bonus" is called a(n)