Which of the following is the mostimportant step when outsourcing the sert up of a new HRIS (human resource information system)?
Which of the following processes attempts to determine the relative worth of jobs within an organization?
A company has decided to terminate the employment of an executive for performance reasons. The HP Manager to create a severance package. Which of the following factors would NOT be considered when creating the final severance package?
Which of the following financial statements would you use in order to calculate gross profit margin?
A .U. S. based Engineering Manager was sent to England for a short-term six-month assignment to recruit and build a team. He is almost dome with the assignmrnt and describes the entire opportunity as being exciting and challenging. He wants to stay in Europe further and hopes to go on future international assignments. According to Black and Mendenhall, which of the following stages of the cross-cultural adjustment cycle is the manager in?
A company decides to pursue an international assignment program to fill a new position in its new office in Beijing, China With the assistance of the human resources professional, the management team has finalized a list of job-specific selection criteria of the ideal candidate for the fole.
During the interviewing process, they utilize various tools to isolate out the success factors. After deciding on the candidate and the individual accepting the offer, the human resources professianal works with vendors to provide cross-cultural training before and during the assignment and plans all the logistical details for the relocation. The human resource professional also assists the individual by providing contacts and setting up meeting to orientate the expatriate before and during the assignment, ie mentors, expatriate community, ect. In this scenario, which of the following actions items were forgotten to ensure a successful interational assignment?
Which of the following is NOT A measurement technique that measures the effectiveness of an internal process?
Which of the following would a trainer emphasize in order to ensure that a training program focused on developing skills for a particular job is valid ?
Which of the following is NOT a pay survey?
Which of the following is a shared characteristic of all four levels of learning, as identified by Kirkpatrick?
An organization is in the growth stage of the organizational life cycle. It has five locations, one in the U.S. (headquarters), two in Asia, one in South America, and one in Europe. The company has decided to utilize a geographic organizational structure. Although the foreign locations are relatively new, they are fully operational each running fairly independently.
However, once a year the executive team from headquarters visits each office to meet with the managers at each site to discuss the coming fiscal year’s strategic goals and objectives. According to Hannon’s framework, which of the following human resource strategies BEST aligns with this type of organizational structure?
A U.S. based high tech company has built a R&D office in Bangalore, India. Four years have passed since the Greenfield operation was successfully built. During this time, the new location has taken on higher priority engineering projects and trained and developed managerial skills of its newly recruited manages in Bangalore.
Headquarters wants the office to take on a new engineering project that would expand its business in the U.S. by adding a new product line. This project has been identified as the most important objective for the corporation in the mid-term. The project is still in the phase of identifying specifications and developing milestones, where the engineering management team is working closely with the product manager. Which of the following types international assignment is the most appropriate for the product manager during this phase of the project?
After two years of selling mostly prototypes of their product, built to customer specifications, a company is beginning to commercialize this product. The current average cost to build the product is $1000 per unit, where $600 is the bill of materials and $400 id the direct labor. The company currently produces at the run rate of the 100 good units per week from 200 total units processed. The firm currently sells the product at $1500 per unit, without volume discounts. One of the major pressures from their customers is to cut costs by 40% within one year. Which of the following strategies should the firm pursue first based on the following research data ? Please assume there is infinite customer demand.
Which of the following stages of globalization is an organization likely in if it is pursuing a polycentric staffing approach?
Which of the following id NOT a factor when developing a compensation and benefits plan for expatriates?
Which of the following BEST identifies the stages in the strategic planning process ?
You are responsible for hiring an engineering architect in Bangalore, India through a short-term international assignment. Which of the following rechniques is the LEAST relevant selection selection criterion tool for this position ?
Which of the following is NOT an international assignee?
A company decides to develop a bonus program as an incentive for employees to increase the number of corporate-owned patents and product innovations. The human resources department is responsible for measuring the increase in the number of patents over time and the increase in the number of R&D projects. Which of the following types of measure BEST describes these metrics ?
Which of the following measures the level of learning achieved by the participants of a training program?
Let’s assume you are training assemblers on how to use the production database to enter and track data on the status of work in process. In addition, in compliance with internal ISO 9001 procedures, you must evaluate the status of the training for the individual as (1) performs with close supervision, (2) performs with minimal supervision, (3) capable of supervising others, or (4) extended training.
Which of the following level of learning (as described by Bloom’s taxonomy) would best describe an individual who “performs with minimal supervision”?
Utilizing Briscoe and Hall’s framework of defining competencies, which of the following is disadvantage of utilizing a strategies-based approach to defining competencies?
Which of the following does NOT represent a strategic financial goal for a global company?
You are in the process of developing a global compensation structure. Which of the following factors dose NOT contribute to a balanced and consistent compensation strategy?
Which of the following leadership theories believes that leadership styles should correspond to the maturity of the employees?
Which of the following factors is an incentive for company to pursue localization?
Which of the following defenses is legitimate for a U.S. firm operating in other countries for violating Title VII of the Civil Rights Act?
Individuals have various styles of learning. Which of the following types of learners is best suited for lectures?
Which of the following selection methods is an effective tool to determine the psychological readiness of an individual for an international assignment ?
Which of the following is NOT a potential difference in benefits practice that Human Resources should evaluate when compensating an expatriate or local national ?