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HRM 6645 MIDTERM EXAM LATEST WITH
ACTUAL QUESTIONS AND CORRECT
ANSWERS/GRADED A+
PCN - .....ANSWER ...✔✔ An EE who is working and
temporarily residing in a foreign country
HCN - .....ANSWER ...✔✔ An EE who is from the
country in which a subsidiary is located and works in
their home country
TCN - .....ANSWER ...✔✔ EE who are natives of a
country other than the home country or the host country
MNE - .....ANSWER ...✔✔ Multinational Enterprise -
firm that owns/ controls business activities in more than 1
foreign country
SME - .....ANSWER ...✔✔ Small and medium
enterprises
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Index of Transnationality - .....ANSWER ...✔✔ in an
average of ratios of foreign assets to total assets;
foreign sales to total sales; and foreign employment to
total employment
Inpatriate - .....ANSWER ...✔✔ employee who is
transferred from a subsidiary to work in the
headquarters (parent-country) for a specified period of
time
Multidomestic Industry - .....ANSWER ...✔✔ one in
which competition in each country is essentially
independent of competition in other countries
Organizational Culture - .....ANSWER ...✔✔ the sense
of common identity and purpose across a whole
organization
Tax Equalization - .....ANSWER ...✔✔ firms withhold
an amount equal to the home-country tax obligation of
the expatriate, and pay all taxes to the host country -
pg5
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Asymmetric Events - .....ANSWER ...✔✔ Have been
described as threats that our political, strategic, and
military cultures regard as unusual - pg16
Artifacts - .....ANSWER ...✔✔ Are described as visible
organization structures and processes -pg38
Communitarianism - .....ANSWER ...✔✔ Cultural view;
the rights of the group or society (puts the group before
the individual); opposite of individualism
Diffuse Culture - .....ANSWER ...✔✔ characterized by
a large private life that includes a relatively large
number of people; small public space that is difficult to
enter(formal introductions required); indirect
communication; no clear distinction between work and
private life
High Context Communication - .....ANSWER ...✔✔ in
high context cultures, a more indirect form of expression
is common, where the receiver must decipher the content
of the message from its context
Particularism - .....ANSWER ...✔✔ pays more
attention to individual cases, deciding what is good and
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correct depending on relationship and special friendship
arrangements -pg36
Power Distance - .....ANSWER ...✔✔ the degree to
which members of a collective expect power to be
distributed equally
Spatial Distance - .....ANSWER ...✔✔ Geographical
distance between EE or locations
Uncertainty Avoidance - .....ANSWER ...✔✔ includes
the extent to which a society, organization, or group
relies on social norms, rules, and procedures to alleviate
unpredictability of future events
Agents of Socialization - .....ANSWER ...✔✔ Assisting
in transfer of values and beliefs; based on assumptions
that appropriate behavior will have been instilled in the
local workforce through training programs and hiring
practices, and that the multinationals way of operating
has been accepted by the local staff in the manner
intended. In this way, the MNC's culture will operate as
a subtle, informal control mechanism - a substitution of
direct supervision -pg48
HRM 6645 MIDTERM EXAM LATEST WITH
ACTUAL QUESTIONS AND CORRECT
ANSWERS/GRADED A+
PCN - .....ANSWER ...✔✔ An EE who is working and
temporarily residing in a foreign country
HCN - .....ANSWER ...✔✔ An EE who is from the
country in which a subsidiary is located and works in
their home country
TCN - .....ANSWER ...✔✔ EE who are natives of a
country other than the home country or the host country
MNE - .....ANSWER ...✔✔ Multinational Enterprise -
firm that owns/ controls business activities in more than 1
foreign country
SME - .....ANSWER ...✔✔ Small and medium
enterprises
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Index of Transnationality - .....ANSWER ...✔✔ in an
average of ratios of foreign assets to total assets;
foreign sales to total sales; and foreign employment to
total employment
Inpatriate - .....ANSWER ...✔✔ employee who is
transferred from a subsidiary to work in the
headquarters (parent-country) for a specified period of
time
Multidomestic Industry - .....ANSWER ...✔✔ one in
which competition in each country is essentially
independent of competition in other countries
Organizational Culture - .....ANSWER ...✔✔ the sense
of common identity and purpose across a whole
organization
Tax Equalization - .....ANSWER ...✔✔ firms withhold
an amount equal to the home-country tax obligation of
the expatriate, and pay all taxes to the host country -
pg5
,3|Page
Asymmetric Events - .....ANSWER ...✔✔ Have been
described as threats that our political, strategic, and
military cultures regard as unusual - pg16
Artifacts - .....ANSWER ...✔✔ Are described as visible
organization structures and processes -pg38
Communitarianism - .....ANSWER ...✔✔ Cultural view;
the rights of the group or society (puts the group before
the individual); opposite of individualism
Diffuse Culture - .....ANSWER ...✔✔ characterized by
a large private life that includes a relatively large
number of people; small public space that is difficult to
enter(formal introductions required); indirect
communication; no clear distinction between work and
private life
High Context Communication - .....ANSWER ...✔✔ in
high context cultures, a more indirect form of expression
is common, where the receiver must decipher the content
of the message from its context
Particularism - .....ANSWER ...✔✔ pays more
attention to individual cases, deciding what is good and
, 4|Page
correct depending on relationship and special friendship
arrangements -pg36
Power Distance - .....ANSWER ...✔✔ the degree to
which members of a collective expect power to be
distributed equally
Spatial Distance - .....ANSWER ...✔✔ Geographical
distance between EE or locations
Uncertainty Avoidance - .....ANSWER ...✔✔ includes
the extent to which a society, organization, or group
relies on social norms, rules, and procedures to alleviate
unpredictability of future events
Agents of Socialization - .....ANSWER ...✔✔ Assisting
in transfer of values and beliefs; based on assumptions
that appropriate behavior will have been instilled in the
local workforce through training programs and hiring
practices, and that the multinationals way of operating
has been accepted by the local staff in the manner
intended. In this way, the MNC's culture will operate as
a subtle, informal control mechanism - a substitution of
direct supervision -pg48
