_____ involves contracting with another company to perform some business-related task.

What is it when a business relocates or moves some or part of its operations to another country?

What involves contracting with another company (onshore or offshore) to perform some business-related task?

What is a market is one in which a product or service is sold only within the borders of that country?

What is a market is one in which a company may find that it has saturated the domestic market for the product, so it seeks out international markets in which to sell its product?

What organization is one in which a product is being sold globally, and the organization looks at the world as its market?

What is a company that produces and sells products in other markets, unlike an international market in which products are produced domestically and then sold overseas?

What is a complex organization with a corporate office, but the difference is that much of the decision making, research and development, and marketing are left up to the individual foreign market?

What is an agreement between two or more countries to reduce barriers to trade?

What means that HRM decisions can be made based on an international scope; that is, HRM strategic decisions can be made from the global perspective rather than a domestic one?

What means that the composition of the firm’s managers and executives should be a multinational one?

Transnational Representation

What refers to the extent to which ideas that contribute to the organization come from a variety of perspectives and ideas from all countries in which the organization operates?

What describes the degree to which individuals are integrated into a group?

Individualism-Collectivism

What refers to the extent to which the less powerful members of organizations accept that power is not distributed equally?

What refers to how a society tolerates uncertainty?

What refers to the distribution of emotional roles between genders, and which gender norms are accepted by society?

Masculinity and Femininity

What refers to the society’s time horizons?

Long-Term--Short-Term Orientation

What would focus on future rewards for work now, persistence, and ordering of relationships by status?

What would focus on focus on values related to the past and present such as national pride or fulfillment of current obligations?

What refers to the socially accepted ways of life within a society?

What are shared expectations about what are considered correct and normal behavior?

What are the things that are classified as good or bad within a society?

What are scripted ways of interacting that usually result in a specific series of events?

What are items a culture holds important such as art, music, and tools used in that culture?

What are Hofstede's dimensions?

Individualism-Collectivism, Power Distance, Uncertainty Avoidance, Masculinity-Femininity, Long-Term v Short-Term Orientation.

What are the strategies to international staffing?

Host-country national, Home-Country national, Third-Country national

What strategy uses employees from the home country to live and work in the country?

What is someone called who is an employee from the home country who is on an international assignment in another country?

What means to employ people who were born in the country in which the business is operating?

What means to employee people from an entirely different country from the home country and host country?

What must a expatriate have to be successful?

Job Factors, Relational Dimensions, Motivational State, Family Situation, Language Skills

In what phase is it when the employee is excited about the new surroundings and finds the culture exotic and stimulating?

In what phase may the employee start to make frequent comparisons between home and host country and may seek out reminders of home?

During what phase does the employee gains language skills and starts to adjust to life overseas?

During which phase does the expatriate embrace the new culture and begins to appreciate his old life at home equally as much as his new life overseas?

What are the phases of expatriate adjustment?

Elation, resistance, adaption, biculturalism.

What is the process of helping employees make the transition to their home country?

What is a psychological phenomenon that can lead to feelings of fear, helplessness, irritability, and disorientation?

What is an international compensation strategy that uses regional or local cost of living information to pay employees?

Localized Compensation Strategy

What is it when expatriates are offered a similar base salary company wide or region wide and are given an allowance based on specific market conditions in each country?

What is the extra amount paid to an expatriate for accepting an overseas job?

What is a tax credit existing in the United States that allow expatriates working abroad to claim taxes paid overseas on their US tax forms, reducing or eliminating double taxation?

What is permission from the host country to visit, live, or work in that country?

What allows some nationals of thirty-six participating countries to travel to the United States for stays of less than ninety days?

Visa Waiver Program (VWP)

What are the main components of an oversea assignment?

Language, culture, goal setting, managing family and stress, reparation.

What are the steps to General Adaption Syndrome?

PreAlarm, alarm, resistance, exhaustion.

Employee is unprepared for assignment, training helps to prepare for an assignment.

Despite training, differences are noticed and environment is making new demands on the employee.

To overcome the difficulty of adjustment, all physical and psychological resources are needed to meet the demand.

Owing to increased physical and psychological demands, the employee adjust or does not adjust, resulting in the employee's losing interest in work.

What is the practice of company shareholders’ and employees’ being represented in equal numbers on the boards of organizations, for organizations with five hundred or more employees?