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Scenario - Symon Enterprises
Symon Enterprises is an international construction company with global offices in twenty foreign markets around the world.Symon currently has over 15,000 employees around the world.The company has an excellent record as being an employer of choice.It recently was voted the number three company to work for in the world by Forbes Magazine.
Symon Enterprises has become very adept at effectively handling its human resources even though there are vast differences in the various countries it services.The company attributes its HR success to the expertise of its HR directors.Symon's practice has always been to hire human resource managers and directors from the country where they will be working.It has found this seems to give the company a competitive edge over the competition.
-Symon Enterprises sends approximately 20% of its workers on overseas assignments.All of the following are considered advantages to be gained by the company from sending expatriates on foreign assignments except which one?


A) Expatriate failure rate is extremely low if they serve ten-years or more on one assignment.
B) It helps parent company with control related to structure.
C) Workers from the parent country will help to impose the values of the organization on the foreign workplace.
D) Expatriates serve to supply the labor market if there are not enough qualified workers available to fill the company's needs.
E) Expatriates can impart the cultural norms of the company to the foreign workers.

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