Deck 10: IHRM Trends and Future Challenges

Question 1

Terrorism is perceived to be a significant threat by MNEs.

Answer 1

True

Question 2

Bribery undermines equity,efficiency and integrity in the public service.

Answer 2

True

Question 3

There is no right or wrong in business.

Answer 3

False

Question 4

Each member of the OECD must submit a peer review report listing all their government officials bribed throughout the year.

Question 5

Greenpeace,an environmental group,has become internationalized and tend to have National 'managers'.

Question 6

Traditionally many domestic and international human resource managers have never been responsible for legal compliance and training issues related to safety in the workplace.

Question 7

Bribery involves the payment to agents to motivate them to complete task they would do in the normal course of their duties.

Question 8

MNE should not consider integrity as a basis for selecting an international assignee.

Question 9

Cyber-terrorism is activities to secure internal communications,open records,and maintenance of back-up system.

Question 10

Complexity of evaluating the overall performance of foreign subsidiaries and their senior management team will remain a dominant issue in international business in the twenty-first century.

Question 11

The Berlin-based non-government lobby group,Transparency International (TI)publishes an n annual Corruption Perceptions Index.

Question 12

The existence of universal ethical principles can be seen in agreements that exist among nations in the United Nations Declaration of Human Rights.

Question 13

Wal-Mart is an example of an NGO.

Question 14

By systematically analyzing people and processes,IHRM professionals may contribute to "stabilizing risk through recommendations that "harden" processes in the value chain.

Question 15

In 1996 the United Nations adapted the Declaration Against Corruption and Bribery in International Commercial Transactions.

Question 16

The three least corrupt countries in the world are New Zealand,Denmark and Singapore.

Question 17

The Foreign Corrupt Practice Act (FCPA)was enacted to prohibit German based firms and nationals from making bribery payment.

Question 18

There has been an international movement to criminalize the practice of bribery.

Question 19

HR professionals provide training in understanding the difference between corrupt bribery payments,gifts and allowable facilitation payments.

Question 20

Expatriate can cut "ethical corners" to deliver good financial results as they are in a foreign country.

Question 21

A typical short-term assignment in IHRM is a:

A) Training position
B) Marketing position
C) Expatriate position
D) Virtual position

Question 22

For the ethical absolutist:

A) There are no universal or international rights and wrongs
B) One should always do what one would do at home
C) There are fundamental principles of rights and wrongs
D) There are no rights and wrongs as far as business is concerned

Question 23

The Foreign Corrupt Practice Act (FCPA)was passed in

A) 1965
B) 1977
C) 1980
D) 1959

Question 24

"When in Rome,do as the Romans do" is an example of:

A) Ethical absolutism
B) Ethical universalism
C) Ethical relativism
D) Ethical religion

Question 25

The "general affairs" aspect of IHRM refers to:

A) The expectation that the human resource function will be the first line of defense in dealing with unpredictable and emergent issues from varied environments.
B) The mass conglomeration of all the different aspect of the IHRM.
C) The expectation that the human resource function will be the resource of last resort for unexpected issues and problems
D) The cross-cultural,coordinative aspect of IHRM

Question 26

Which of the following would be considered in the risk assessment category of in-facility security?

A) Protocol for evacuation
B) Bomb threat procedures
C) The sabotage of software systems
D) Providing portable 5 minute air packs

Question 27

Which country lobbied for many years to enact uniform domestic government regulations concerning bribery and corruption in the MNE environment?

A) Germany
B) Finland
C) USA
D) Switzerland

Question 28

What would be considered a NGO?

A) Red Cross
B) Wal-Mart
C) Audi
D) NATO

Question 29

Activities to secure internal communications (emails,telephone)and employee privacy regulations would fall under which risk assessment category?

A) Cyber-terrorism
B) Industrial espionage,theft and sabotage
C) Emergency preparedness
D) Pandemics

Question 30

What are the two most frequent ethical problems encountered by international managers?

A) Child labor and prostitution
B) Bribery and corruption
C) Bribery and pornography
D) Corruption and slavery

Question 31

As of 2009 how many countries have adapted the Declaration Against Corrupt and Bribery in International Commercial Transactions?

A) 30
B) 15
C) 38
D) 50

Question 32

Instruments in developing and maintaining ethical cultures by expatriates can be reinforced by

A) Performance appraisal,compensation programs and trips home
B) Money,money and money
C) Exotic vacations and bonuses
D) Performance appraisals,shorter hours and trips home

Question 33

IHRMs have largely ignored the non-government organizations because:

A) They don't have the same physical risk
B) Their management ethos are values-driven,charitable and philanthropic ideals
C) Their management ethos are reflected by effectiveness and efficiency
D) They do not have national managers

Question 34

The field of IHRM has been criticized as being slow to develop as a rigorous body of theory.

Question 35

Who adopted the Declaration Against Corruption and Bribery in International Commercial Transactions?

A) The Geneva Convention
B) The EU
C) The USA
D) The United Nations

Question 36

The countries perceived to be the least corrupt are:

A) USA,Chile and Belgium
B) Denmark,New Zealand,Singapore
C) Guinea,Myanmar and Haiti
D) Canada,Switzerland and Sweden

Question 37

To avoid the temptation to cut "ethical corners" expatriates should:

A) Be sent on vacations
B) Not be pressured to meet unreasonable goals
C) Be given ethical and cultural training
D) Should have a compensate salary to maintain an appropriate standard of living

Question 38

The macro level of terrorist threats is an attack:

A) At the level of the individual person
B) At the specific region or industry
C) Of the global environment
D) At the cyber or information system environment

Question 39

The need for international accords and corporate codes of conducts have :

A) Grown commensurately with the spread of international business
B) Decreased considerably with the spread of international business
C) Remained the same with the spread of international business
D) Decreased due to the countries becoming more socially attune

Question 40

What does stabilizing risk through "harden" processes in the value chain mean?

A) To recruit people with capabilities and skills relevant to identified risk assessments
B) Replacing people with machines to ensure seniority protocols
C) Recruiting security specialist rather than functional experts
D) Eliminating at-risk steps in the value chain

Question 41

The three levels of terrorist threats are all EXCEPT:

A) Micro level
B) Primary level
C) Intra level
D) Macro level

Question 42

What are five categories of external risk assessment which needs to be addressed by a multinational enterprise?

Question 43

The field of international human resource management has been regarded as :

A) A long standing cornerstone of business studies
B) Necessary in the MNE schools
C) A marginal academic area
D) Problematic

Question 44

Multinational chief executives report terrorism:

A) Is not a significant threat to business growth,nor a threat to other organizations
B) Is a significant threat to business growth,but is not a threat to their organizations
C) Is not a significant threat to business growth ,but is a threat to their organization
D) Is a significant threat to business growth and a significant threat to their organization

Question 45

Bribery is:

A) Payments to agents to do things that are inconsistent with the purpose of their position to gain unfair advantage
B) Activities to secure internal communications in order to gain an unfair advantage
C) The act of hardening facilities in order to gain an unfair advantage
D) Unethical pressure to deliver good financial statements

Question 46

What are the three levels of international human resource management analysis of potential risk from terrorist?

Question 47

Low risk firms in low risk environments:

A) Do not need to invest as heavily in security systems and protocols
B) Should follow security strategies that focus on hardening individual sites
C) Should invest in elaborate risk management strategies
D) Should build redundant infrastructure

Question 48

It is generally agreed internationally that the one thing that can most readily undermine equity,efficiency and integrity in the public service,undercut public confidence in markets,add cost to products and effects the safety and well-being of the general public is:

A) Bribery
B) Facilitating payments
C) Sabotage
D) Cyber-terrorism

Question 49

What are some non-government organizations and do they have the same international human resource management issues?

Question 50

Research in the field of HRM:

A) Is relatively cheap and straightforward and simple
B) Is relatively expensive,yet straight forward and simple
C) Is relatively expensive and complicated
D) Is relatively cheap and uninteresting to most researchers

Question 51

What are some developments in the international sector concerning bribery and corruption?

Question 52

Emerging risk categories are all EXCEPT:

A) Avian flu
B) Political terrorist groups
C) Pandemics
D) Bribery

Question 53

A working set of corporate risk assessment categories - a starting point for a MNE specific risk audit:

A) Do not yet exist
B) Consists of in value and out of value elements and counter espionage
C) Disaster protocols,workplace violence & industrial theft
D) Consists of in- facility emergency and disaster preparedness,in facility security,industrial espionage,cyber-terrorism and out-of-facility fire and travel risks

Question 54

What year was the International Journal of Human Resource Management established?

A) 1970
B) 1980
C) 1990
D) 2000

Question 55

Most executives:

A) Do not have a system to respond to critical incidents such as kidnapping of an executive
B) Are unwilling to discuss the protocols processes systems and structures in sensitive areas concerning critical incidents
C) Outsource their security concerns
D) Are unwilling to negotiate with terrorist

Question 56

Security risk can be partitioned into two dimensions.What are the dimensions and describe low and high risk per each dimension?