HRM6645 - Questions With Appropriate Solutions
Index of Transnationality Correct Answer - calculated as the
average of three ratios: foreign assets to total assets, foreign sales to
total sales and foreign employment to total employment
Inpatriate Correct Answer - An employee of a multinational
company who is from a foreign country, but is transferred from a
foreign subsidiary to the corporation's headquarters.
Multidomestic Industry Correct Answer - An industry in which
competition takes place on a country-by-country basis; competition
in each country is essentially independent of competition other
countries - retail, distribution and insurance are examples.
Organizational Culture Correct Answer - Corporate culture, is a
strategic intangible scheme that incorporates basic assumptions and
values, which define the behavior, operation, and activities of an
organization. In other words, it is the general attitude, mood, and
motivation, or lack thereof, of the people in the company - sense of
common identity and purpose.
Tax Equalization Correct Answer - When one is a taxpayer in
one country, but works in another, one may be subject to different
taxation from if one had worked in one's home country, or even to
double taxation, even taking account of tax treaties between
countries. Tax equalization (or tax equalization) is the offsetting of
any such difference so that working abroad is tax neutral for the
worker. The company will withhold an amount equal to the home
country tax will paying all host country obligations for the
expatriate.
Artefacts (cultural) Correct Answer - Visible organizational
structures and processes.
, Communitarianism Correct Answer - An ideology which
emphasizes the responsibility of the individual to the community
and the social importance of the family unit. Puts the rights of the
group before the individual.
Diffuse Culture Correct Answer - A culture in which public
space and private space are similar in size and individuals guard
their public space carefully, because entry into public space affords
entry into private space as well a large private life that includes a
relatively large number of people; a small public space that if
difficult to enter (outsiders need introduction) to do business;
indirect communication that does not always say what is really
meant. Not clear distinction between work and private life.
High Context Communication Correct Answer - A
communication style where people state things indirectly and
implicitly. It uses restricted codes and contextual cues, exhibit
vague, implicit and indirect communication patterns.
Particularism Correct Answer - Focus on individual cases,
deciding what is good and correct depending on relationships and
special friendship arrangements
Power Distance Correct Answer - Is the extent to which the
lower ranking individuals of a society "accept and expect that power
is distributed unequally." It is primarily used in psychological and
sociological studies on societal management of inequalities between
individuals, and individual's perceptions of that management.
Spatial Distance Correct Answer - Is the physical distance at
which the events are taking place from each other. If the event, such
as a graduation, is taking place down the street, it is being processed
Index of Transnationality Correct Answer - calculated as the
average of three ratios: foreign assets to total assets, foreign sales to
total sales and foreign employment to total employment
Inpatriate Correct Answer - An employee of a multinational
company who is from a foreign country, but is transferred from a
foreign subsidiary to the corporation's headquarters.
Multidomestic Industry Correct Answer - An industry in which
competition takes place on a country-by-country basis; competition
in each country is essentially independent of competition other
countries - retail, distribution and insurance are examples.
Organizational Culture Correct Answer - Corporate culture, is a
strategic intangible scheme that incorporates basic assumptions and
values, which define the behavior, operation, and activities of an
organization. In other words, it is the general attitude, mood, and
motivation, or lack thereof, of the people in the company - sense of
common identity and purpose.
Tax Equalization Correct Answer - When one is a taxpayer in
one country, but works in another, one may be subject to different
taxation from if one had worked in one's home country, or even to
double taxation, even taking account of tax treaties between
countries. Tax equalization (or tax equalization) is the offsetting of
any such difference so that working abroad is tax neutral for the
worker. The company will withhold an amount equal to the home
country tax will paying all host country obligations for the
expatriate.
Artefacts (cultural) Correct Answer - Visible organizational
structures and processes.
, Communitarianism Correct Answer - An ideology which
emphasizes the responsibility of the individual to the community
and the social importance of the family unit. Puts the rights of the
group before the individual.
Diffuse Culture Correct Answer - A culture in which public
space and private space are similar in size and individuals guard
their public space carefully, because entry into public space affords
entry into private space as well a large private life that includes a
relatively large number of people; a small public space that if
difficult to enter (outsiders need introduction) to do business;
indirect communication that does not always say what is really
meant. Not clear distinction between work and private life.
High Context Communication Correct Answer - A
communication style where people state things indirectly and
implicitly. It uses restricted codes and contextual cues, exhibit
vague, implicit and indirect communication patterns.
Particularism Correct Answer - Focus on individual cases,
deciding what is good and correct depending on relationships and
special friendship arrangements
Power Distance Correct Answer - Is the extent to which the
lower ranking individuals of a society "accept and expect that power
is distributed unequally." It is primarily used in psychological and
sociological studies on societal management of inequalities between
individuals, and individual's perceptions of that management.
Spatial Distance Correct Answer - Is the physical distance at
which the events are taking place from each other. If the event, such
as a graduation, is taking place down the street, it is being processed
