Deck 10: IHRM Trends and Future Challenges

Question 1

IHRM comes out of three areas. Which of the following is NOT one of these?

A) global talent management
B) cross-cultural management
C) comparative HRM and industrial relations
D) HRM in multinational firms

Answer 1

A

Question 2

"No matter where you are, do what you would do at home"

A) ethical optimist
B) ethical relativist
C) ethical absolutist
D) ethical universalist

Answer 2

C

Question 3

Principles exist that transcend cultural boundaries. MNEs should follow these principles.

A) ethical optimist
B) ethical relativist
C) ethical absolutist
D) ethical universalist

Answer 3

D

Question 4

No matter what the expected interaction, length of stay, or novelty of culture, international employee preparation should always include

A) language training
B) sensitivity training
C) simulations
D) an ethics component

Question 5

_____ involves an MNE providing comprised perimeter security and in/out search protocols

A) In-facility emergency and disaster preparedness
B) In-facility security
C) Industrial espionage, theft, and sabotage
D) Cyber-terrorism

Question 6

Which of these is NOT an inducement for an employee to complete a task that they would normally do?

A) bribes
B) gifts
C) facilitating payments
D) grease payments

Question 7

Each of the following is a non-profit NGO except

A) Medecins Sans Frontieres
B) Oxfam
C) Coca Cola
D) World Vision

Question 8

Which of these countries have the highest perceived corruption indices?

A) United States
B) Denmark, New Zealand, Finland
C) North, Korea, South Sudan, Somalia
D) Venezuela

Question 9

Assessing the risk of terrorist threats in specific regions or levels in international value chains is at this level of analysis:

A) data-gathering
B) primary
C) micro
D) macro

Question 10

Assessing the risk of terrorist threats at the level of the individual and the firm is at this level of analysis:

A) data-gathering
B) primary
C) micro
D) macro

Question 11

The OECD convention criminalizing bribery came into force in

A) 2009
B) 1999
C) 1989
D) 1979

Question 12

The USA has lobbied other nation states to enact uniform domestic government regulation to provide a level playing field. The _____ shows that these efforts have met with some success.

A) FCPA
B) OECD Convention
C) Transparency International
D) United Nations Declaration of Human Rights

Question 13

The United States' Foreign Corrupt Practices Act

A) ethnocentric
B) geocentric
C) regiocentric
D) polycentric

Question 14

MNEs avoid _____ with activities to secure internal communications, open records protection, employee privacy regulations.

A) In-facility emergency and disaster preparedness
B) In-facility security
C) Industrial espionage, theft, and sabotage
D) Cyber-terrorism

Question 15

Which of these countries have the lowest perceived corruption indices?

A) United States
B) Denmark, New Zealand, Finland
C) North, Korea, South Sudan, Somalia
D) Venezuela

Question 16

Little is known about HRM in balancing the economic imperatives of cost control and global standardization with the social and institutional realities of citizenship in a widening range of diverse contexts - particularly in the development of _____.

A) labor sourcing
B) compensation
C) employee relations strategies
D) all of the above

Question 17

The actual and reputational costs to an MNE of ethics violations can be huge. Siemens' case cost a total of

A) Euro 2.5 billion
B) US 800 million
C) Euro 427 million
D)

Question 18

The business functions that will have the most influence on global business in the future will be

A) logistics, marketing, and HR
B) communications, finance, and communications
C) all of the above
D) none of the above

Question 19

_____. To protect against this: hardware, software, and human systems to deal with hacking, etc.

A) In-facility emergency and disaster preparedness
B) In-facility security
C) Industrial espionage, theft, and sabotage
D) Cyber-terrorism

Question 20

"When in Rome, do as the Romans do"

A) ethical optimist
B) ethical relativist
C) ethical absolutist
D) ethical universalist