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3. Managing international operations(Connect/Perform)

Use your knowledge of overseas management to complete thefollowing sentences.

You are an HR manager for P & G, an established company thathas been doing business around the world for many years. P & Gis looking for new managers for some of their overseasoperations.
You would be most likely to try to find _________________ if youwanted to reassure political officials that your employees wouldabide by the cultural standards of the country.
A. third-country nationals
B. host-country nationals
C. home-country nationals

The disadvantage of this approach is that your new managers_____________________________.
A. may not have sophisticated skill sets
B. will be very expensive
C. will have book-knowledge of their country, not in-depthknowledge

Identify the element of training and development programs thatwould address each example:

An employee wants to know what role foreign assignments play inadvancing through the organization's hierarchy. ____

1. Cultural
2. Assessing and tracking career development
3. Language
4. Managing personal and family life
5. Repatriation

Employees often lament that their organizations are vague abouttheir return home, their new roles within the company, and theircareer progression. ____

1. Cultural
2. Assessing and tracking career development
3. Language
4. Managing personal and family life
5. Repatriation

In Japan, there are 16 ways of saying no. ____

1. Cultural
2. Assessing and tracking career development
3. Language
4. Managing personal and family life
5. Repatriation