1.

Third country nationals are employees born in a country other than the parent country or
host country, but who work in the host country.
2. The HRM problems that multinational companies face are completely different from
those faced by international companies.
3. Allowances are often offered to make the expatriate assignment more attractive.
4. Firms generally pursue an ethnocentric approach to staffing the lower-level posts in their
international operations.
5. Citizens of a country who are working and living in their home country are called
expatriates.
6. A countrys economic system is completely unrelated to its human capital.
7. After a company recruits and selects its managers and other employees, it normally
identifies the skills and knowledge employees have and those they need to perform their
duties.
8. When current human resource levels are greater than anticipated needs, a firm must
engage in the process of recruitment.
9. Forecasting a companys human resource needs and supply is called staffing policy.
10. The General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade is an international framework of rules for
reducing trade barriers around the world.
2.

Operations outside the home country are managed by individuals from the host country in

________ staffing.
a.

geocentric

b.

regiocentric

c.

ethnocentric

d.

polycentric

According to Hofstedes cultural dimensions, a culture where people are expected to look after
their own interests and the interests of their immediate families is one high in:

a. power distance.
b. masculinity.
c. individualism.
d. uncertainty avoidance.