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SHRM-SCP PRACTICE QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS WITH COMPLETE
SOLUTIONS VERIFIED GRADED A++
Terms in this set (147)
"Which strategy for international assignees Ensuring that assignees are equipped with communication platforms and
best helps to improve their overall technologies"
experience and reduce their sense of
isolation?
By coordinating subsidiary activities to ensure that culture and policies are
How does HR contribute to consistent with those of the home country, Local culture and values are
diverse locations in a multidomestic accommodated in a
strategy? multidomestic strategy; still, there remains a need to coordinate them with the
overall organizational culture.
How does an understanding of global Hyperconnectivity has changed the way employees access information in the
forces benefit HR practices in a traditional workplace.
organization?
How can an organization ensure a smooth Provide assurance that skills and experience attained during the assignment will be
repatriation of an employee after an used as part of a new assignment.
international assignment?
A multinational corporation is expanding Budget time and resources to revise policies and practices and train all personnel.
quickly through acquisitions. It aims to One of the challenges facing an organization that is seeking global integration of
create efficiency and innovation by acquired entities is that these entities have established their own policies and
integrating all its operations. What might processes and will adhere to them unless deliberate action is taken to create new,
the VP of HR advise the management integrated policies and procedures.
committee in this case?
A company expands its operations to Deeper understanding of new markets. Pursuing a global strategy with a local
deliver services outside its home country. workforce allows the organization to understand and respond to local preferences
The CEO decides to hire local and practices.
workforces for the new offices and tasks
the VP of HR with communicating this
strategy to the
organization. What benefit should the VP of
HR emphasize?
What action should HR take to approach Disseminate information, technology, and values uniformly throughout the global
global assignments from a strategic- organization.One of the most important tasks is to ensure that communication and
systematic perspective? knowledge sharing are universal throughout the organization.
A manager comes the HR director and Explain to the manager the process of cross-cultural adjustment and its effect on
complains about a recent global assignee. productivity.
The employee has been late on the
first report deadline and is not meeting
initial goals. How should the HR
director
respond?
Which of Perlmutter's orientations will allow Regiocentric. In a regiocentric orientation, operations are managed regionally.
HR to standardize talent staffing plans Communication is high within the region and less so between regions. However,
for an MNC where there is a strong staffing practices that promote global approaches are encouraged.
business
lead?
Products created for or by emerging economy markets that are then imported to
Which is an example of reverse innovation?
developed economy markets.
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Deploying strong mentoring and talent management programs in host-countries. An
Which initiative is most likely to have the
local responsiveness strategy commits an organization to achieving a greater
biggest impact to an organization's
reliance on local expertise. This calls for increased investment in developing local
local responsiveness globalization
talent and creating a new class of local leaders.
strategy?
A global firm is planning to take a Donations will be more aligned to local community needs.
polycentric approach to its philanthropic
programs. Which is the most likely
outcome of taking this approach?
Workforce alignment. The upstream/downstream model considers it useful to
According to the upstream/downstream
localize downstream HR activities (compensation, benefits, labor relations), placing
strategic model what HR activities are most
them closer to HR customers. Upstream functions (strategic planning, workforce
likely to be placed at headquarters?
alignment) should be closer to corporate headquarters.
Accommodating a multidirectional flow of ideas. The organization's information and
knowledge need to be shared among all locations in a globalized organization.
Which step moves an organization from
Acquisitions in other countries could make an organization multinational, but to
being multinational to globalized?
become a truly globalized organization, ideas, goods, and products must flow in
many directions.
Local cultural norms are understood and implemented locally. In the polycentric
Which best describes a company with a
orientation, entities are allowed a large measure of independence as long as they
polycentric approach to globalization?
are profitable and may adapt to local culture and legal compliance as
needed.
How does an understanding of Perlmutter's Staffing strategies need to include an understanding of the relationship between
orientations provide HR with a blueprint for headquarters and subsidiaries.
developing effective global staffing
strategies?
Repatriation without enough notice.A multinational corporation is hiring skilled
Which situation is most likely to cause workers who have left their countries because of civil unrest and natural
reverse culture shock? catastrophes. In some cases as many as a hundred new employees may
have emigrated from the same or neighboring towns.
Offer cultural training for both managers and their new employees.The head of HR
must consider the needs and effects of this new workforce. Managers will be more
How might the CHRO respond to this
effective if they understand their employees' cultures, and employees will feel more
situation?
engaged and committed to the employer if they understand the host country's
culture.
What is one of the three considerations for While the effects of a given global force are also global, their impact may be felt
understanding global forces? uniquely by different cultures, industries, and organizations.
What term describes a web of Globalization
interconnectedness or the movement of
people (labor) and knowledge
(technology) across borders?
A natural disaster results in a major changes to import policies, and new regulations. What term best describes this
disruption to a country's manufacturing of kind of breadth of effects?,Political, economic, social, technological, legal, and
goods that are exported worldwide. Far- environmental (PESTLE)
reaching effects to other countries include
disruption of global supply chains
How has the changing shape of Talent can be assigned in more flexible ways.
globalization affected the type of
international assignments HR manages?
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SHRM-SCP PRACTICE QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS WITH COMPLETE
SOLUTIONS VERIFIED GRADED A++
Terms in this set (147)
"Which strategy for international assignees Ensuring that assignees are equipped with communication platforms and
best helps to improve their overall technologies"
experience and reduce their sense of
isolation?
By coordinating subsidiary activities to ensure that culture and policies are
How does HR contribute to consistent with those of the home country, Local culture and values are
diverse locations in a multidomestic accommodated in a
strategy? multidomestic strategy; still, there remains a need to coordinate them with the
overall organizational culture.
How does an understanding of global Hyperconnectivity has changed the way employees access information in the
forces benefit HR practices in a traditional workplace.
organization?
How can an organization ensure a smooth Provide assurance that skills and experience attained during the assignment will be
repatriation of an employee after an used as part of a new assignment.
international assignment?
A multinational corporation is expanding Budget time and resources to revise policies and practices and train all personnel.
quickly through acquisitions. It aims to One of the challenges facing an organization that is seeking global integration of
create efficiency and innovation by acquired entities is that these entities have established their own policies and
integrating all its operations. What might processes and will adhere to them unless deliberate action is taken to create new,
the VP of HR advise the management integrated policies and procedures.
committee in this case?
A company expands its operations to Deeper understanding of new markets. Pursuing a global strategy with a local
deliver services outside its home country. workforce allows the organization to understand and respond to local preferences
The CEO decides to hire local and practices.
workforces for the new offices and tasks
the VP of HR with communicating this
strategy to the
organization. What benefit should the VP of
HR emphasize?
What action should HR take to approach Disseminate information, technology, and values uniformly throughout the global
global assignments from a strategic- organization.One of the most important tasks is to ensure that communication and
systematic perspective? knowledge sharing are universal throughout the organization.
A manager comes the HR director and Explain to the manager the process of cross-cultural adjustment and its effect on
complains about a recent global assignee. productivity.
The employee has been late on the
first report deadline and is not meeting
initial goals. How should the HR
director
respond?
Which of Perlmutter's orientations will allow Regiocentric. In a regiocentric orientation, operations are managed regionally.
HR to standardize talent staffing plans Communication is high within the region and less so between regions. However,
for an MNC where there is a strong staffing practices that promote global approaches are encouraged.
business
lead?
Products created for or by emerging economy markets that are then imported to
Which is an example of reverse innovation?
developed economy markets.
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Deploying strong mentoring and talent management programs in host-countries. An
Which initiative is most likely to have the
local responsiveness strategy commits an organization to achieving a greater
biggest impact to an organization's
reliance on local expertise. This calls for increased investment in developing local
local responsiveness globalization
talent and creating a new class of local leaders.
strategy?
A global firm is planning to take a Donations will be more aligned to local community needs.
polycentric approach to its philanthropic
programs. Which is the most likely
outcome of taking this approach?
Workforce alignment. The upstream/downstream model considers it useful to
According to the upstream/downstream
localize downstream HR activities (compensation, benefits, labor relations), placing
strategic model what HR activities are most
them closer to HR customers. Upstream functions (strategic planning, workforce
likely to be placed at headquarters?
alignment) should be closer to corporate headquarters.
Accommodating a multidirectional flow of ideas. The organization's information and
knowledge need to be shared among all locations in a globalized organization.
Which step moves an organization from
Acquisitions in other countries could make an organization multinational, but to
being multinational to globalized?
become a truly globalized organization, ideas, goods, and products must flow in
many directions.
Local cultural norms are understood and implemented locally. In the polycentric
Which best describes a company with a
orientation, entities are allowed a large measure of independence as long as they
polycentric approach to globalization?
are profitable and may adapt to local culture and legal compliance as
needed.
How does an understanding of Perlmutter's Staffing strategies need to include an understanding of the relationship between
orientations provide HR with a blueprint for headquarters and subsidiaries.
developing effective global staffing
strategies?
Repatriation without enough notice.A multinational corporation is hiring skilled
Which situation is most likely to cause workers who have left their countries because of civil unrest and natural
reverse culture shock? catastrophes. In some cases as many as a hundred new employees may
have emigrated from the same or neighboring towns.
Offer cultural training for both managers and their new employees.The head of HR
must consider the needs and effects of this new workforce. Managers will be more
How might the CHRO respond to this
effective if they understand their employees' cultures, and employees will feel more
situation?
engaged and committed to the employer if they understand the host country's
culture.
What is one of the three considerations for While the effects of a given global force are also global, their impact may be felt
understanding global forces? uniquely by different cultures, industries, and organizations.
What term describes a web of Globalization
interconnectedness or the movement of
people (labor) and knowledge
(technology) across borders?
A natural disaster results in a major changes to import policies, and new regulations. What term best describes this
disruption to a country's manufacturing of kind of breadth of effects?,Political, economic, social, technological, legal, and
goods that are exported worldwide. Far- environmental (PESTLE)
reaching effects to other countries include
disruption of global supply chains
How has the changing shape of Talent can be assigned in more flexible ways.
globalization affected the type of
international assignments HR manages?
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