3. Managing international operations(Connect/Perform)
Use your knowledge of overseas management to complete thefollowing sentences.
You are an HR manager for P & G, an established company thathas been doing business around the world for many years. P & Gis looking for new managers for some of their overseasoperations.
You would be most likely to try to find _________________ if youwanted to reassure political officials that your employees wouldabide by the cultural standards of the country.
A. third-country nationals
B. host-country nationals
C. home-country nationals
The disadvantage of this approach is that your new managers_____________________________.
A. may not have sophisticated skill sets
B. will be very expensive
C. will have book-knowledge of their country, not in-depthknowledge
Identify the element of training and development programs thatwould address each example:
An employee wants to know what role foreign assignments play inadvancing through the organization's hierarchy. ____
- Cultural
- Assessing and tracking career development
- Language
- Managing personal and family life
- Repatriation
Employees often lament that their organizations are vague abouttheir return home, their new roles within the company, and theircareer progression. ____
- Cultural
- Assessing and tracking career development
- Language
- Managing personal and family life
- Repatriation
In Japan, there are 16 ways of saying no. ____
- Cultural
- Assessing and tracking career development
- Language
- Managing personal and family life
- Repatriation
