A Singapore-based restaurant chain is experiencing phenomenal growth. The chain offers a unique for demographic experiencing the growth of two-person income families. It offers a variety of affordable, healthy alternatives to the fast food chains. Instead of one line of products shared by the entire company, the corporation has decided its products should be regional. Each region would share a line of products, which would consist of local dishes.

Although the primary expansion vehicle is franchising, they still have several corporate-owned stores in each region, which manage the major decisions of the company. For example, the regional corporate stores work with the franchises in the area to decide upon the local dishes that the region should serve.

However, all stores are aligned with strict standardized quality practices, which all regions must adhere to. For example, after a region decides on the list of local foods it would like to serve, corporate headquarters approves the final recipes for each region. In addition, managers from the various meet regularly to ensure that each region’s goals align with overall corporate strategic goals. For example, they have built a thorough screening process to ensure the same quality of food from vendors throughout the regions. Which of the following stages of globalization would BEST align with strategic business goals of expansion?

Which of the following functions does a job description NOT serve?

Let’s assume that a company’s promotion/ compensation philosophy focuses on the employees’ long term goals. The company believes all employee should be given the opportunity to pursue their long-term professional goals, as long as they are willing to put in the time and effort. In fact, the company extends this general philosophy of the importance of the individual to a “no-layoff” policy, even in difficult business times. Which of the following best describes this type of culture?

A corporation is considering building a greenfield operation for a R&D site in Bangalore, India According to the strategic plan, technical managers from headquarters will manage these employees and incorporate them in their current engineering product deployments. Which of the following is NOT an advantage of pursuing heterogeneous global teams?

You have decided to measure the organization’s recruiting effectiveness in the long term by calculating of turnover. Which of the following reasons represents the PRIMARY purpose of this measurement?

What are the 4P’s in Marketing?

A corporation decides to pursue a participative management style in order to make improvements in their operational efficiencies. Which of the following processes is the organization utilizing in order to achieve their strategic goal?

Which of the following statements describes a false positive in the selection process?

Which of the following statements is ture?

Which of the following actions is a PRIMARY deterrent against employees organizing to form labor unions?

Which of the following is an intangible benefit of an international assignment?

You are in the process of developing a global compensation structure. Which of the following factors dose NOT contribute to a balanced and consistent compensation strategy?

A company decide to purpose an international assignment program to fill a new position in its new office Beijing, China. With the assistance of the human resources professional, the management, team has finalized a list of selection criteria of the candidate for the role considering the entire scope of the international assignment. During the interviewing process, they utilize various tools to isolate out the success factors.

After deciding on the candidate and the individual accepting the offer, the human resources professional with vendors to provide cross-cultural training prior to departure and plans all the logistical details for the relocation. The human resources professional also assists the individual and his family by providing contacts and setting up meetings with other expatriates in the host country to orientate the expatriate before country, ie career deveploment, potential roles, personal transition, etc. In this scenario, which of the following actions items were forgotten to ensure a successful international assignment?

Which of the following is NOT a common mistake in selection procedures?

An organization is in the decline stage of the organizational life cycle. It has worldwide locations throughout North America, Europe, and Asia. However, it will be closing three of offices within the next two years. This was joint decision made by the management team at the annual managers’ meeting, which all managers above the senior manager grade level attended.

Key personnel in each of these offices are not worried because they will likely be re-deployed to meet specific organizational needs. In fact, this was what had occurred last year to one of its offices had shut down. In addition, management has reiterated this message. Which of the following stages of globalization BEST describes the phase this company is in?

Which of the following financial statements would you use in order to calculate gross profit margin?

Which of the following decribes an employee’s motivational potential, according to the job characteristics mode?

Which of the following actions is NOT subject to prosecution, based on the Age Discrimination in Employment Act ( ADEA )?

A U.S. based high tech company has built a R&D office in Bangalore, India. Four years have passed since the greenfield operation was successfully built. During this time, the new location has taken on higher priority engineering projects and has trained and developed managerial skills of its newly recruited managers in Bangalore.

Headquarters wants the office to take on a new engineering project that would expand its business in the U.S. by adding a new product line. This project has been identified as the most important objective for the corporation in the mid-term. The project is still in the phase of identifying specifications and developing milestones, where the engineering management ream is working closely with the product manager. The management team understands that it must create an international assignment program to have this project run smoothly. The team believes that extended business travel would be the most appropriate program.

In order to confirm their belief, the HR manager does extensive research. The analysis shows that extended business travel will result in $10,000,000 addition revenue in the first year and $5,000,000 additional revenue in the second year due to the customization of the product to customer demand. The cost of the program is $400,000 initial investment plus a variable cost of $100,000 per year. What is the return on investment in the first year ?

Which of the following selection methods is NOT an effective tool to determine the cultural adaptability and a suitable leadership style of an individual for an international assignment?

Which of the following isNOT one of the four fundamental principles and rights at work established by the International Labor Oraganization (ILO)?

Which of the following represents an argument why nations should confer within organizations like the EU to create minimum labor standards worldwide ?

In which of the following situations do HR managers have the greatest impact on organizations?

Which of the following is NOT a variable that differs between replacement planning and succession planning?

Which of the following is a shared characteristic of all four levels of learning, as identified by Kirkpatrick?

According to the McKinsey 7-S framework, which of the following is identified as a hard S?

A Product Manager has been identified to travel 2 weeks every month to the Asia Engineering office on extended business travel for an eight-month period. The other 2 weeks of the month, she works at the U.S. Based headquarters. Which of the following training programs is the MOST critical to ensure success on the job ?

Human resource management is conducted to achieve______goals.

Which of the following is a difference between the recruitment and selection of an individual for a position in the home country vs. For an international assignment?

Which of the following is NOT an action performed during the needs analysis analysis stage of the change management process ?