Chapter 9
Lack of managerial effectiveness of PCNs in foreign countries
What is a disadvantage of the ethnocentric staffing approach?
An acquired skill that refer(s) to making decisions with less information and more uncertainty about the process and the outcome.
What is tolerance for ambiguity?
Characterized by low dependence on an organization and a desire for personal time, freedom, and challenges?
What is individualism?
In the context of needs, Eastern cultures tend to focus on this.
What are the needs of society?
Helping employees realize their highest potential in the workplace
What is the essence of leadership?
Local managers tend to be instrumental in staving off or more effectively dealing with problems in sensitive political situations.
What is an advantage of the polycentric staffing approach?
This is optimized when career opportunities provided by the organization are congruent with repatriate career goals and aspirations.
What is knowledge transfer?
People generally prefer little consultation between superiors and subordinates where this is high.
What is power distance?
This is/are the most common reason(s) given by Mexican workers for absenteeism and for failing to return to work.
What are family reasons?
The critical factors necessary for successful leadership abroad have come to be known as this.
What is global mindset?
Provides a greater pool of qualified and willing applicants from which to choose
What is a global staffing policy?
A collection of managers in or from several countries who must rely on group collaboration if each member is to experience optimum success and goal
What is global management team?
For most people, the basic meaning of work is tied to _________.
What is group membership?
An employee's needs are determined largely by this.
What are the cultural context of values and attitudes?
The global leader's role comprises the interaction of two sets of variables.
What are the content and the context of leadership?
Staffing option utilized to provide a linking pin between the company's headquarters and local host subsidiaries.
Who/What are inpatriates?
Enable cost effective, rapid knowledge sharing and collaboration, but are fraught with cross-cultural and logistical challenges.
What are virtual global teams?
His research focused on how some people are motivated by internal aspirations and life goals, whereas others are primarily motivated by the job conditions.
Who is Herzberg?
Rewarding the individual is frowned upon in this country because it encourages competition rather than the desired group cooperation.
What is Japan?
The attributes of the leader.
What is the content of leadership?
Autocratic leadership qualities
What is NOT a global mind-set attribute that a successful expatriates possesses?
A force that establishes or maintains divergent systems.
What are collective bargaining methods?
The degree of general importance that working has in the life of an individual at any given point in time
What is work centrality?
NOT one of the typical reward categories in the United States.
What is cultural?
The business environment.
What is the context of leadership?