11. Which of the following describes offshoring?

A. Laying off all employees working in a different country

B. Offering bonuses to employees to work in different countries

C. Hiring employees abroad to do jobs once done in the home country

D. Relocating an entire company from one country to another

E. Moving workers from one country to work in another

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12.What can a firm do to minimize the pressures on family members traveling with employees to overseas assignments?

A. Teach money management and budgeting.

B. Encourage language fluency.

C. Increase the length of assignment so support systems can be developed.

D. Use video technologies to allow for communication with the home country.

E. Encourage a strong work ethic that supports the employee.

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13.In what way might ethnocentric staffing policies harm an international company?

A. By encouraging everyone to give his or her opinion

B. By confusing corporate culture with local culture

C. By allowing too many different management types

D. By limiting people's understanding of host country practices

E. By creating different ways of doing the same thing

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14. Which of the following describes a practice that reflects the conscious belief that only host-country managers can ever really understand the culture and behavior of the host-country market; therefore, the foreign subsidiary should be managed by local people?

A. Ethnocentric practice

B. Global practice

C. Domestic practice

D. Polycentric practice

E. Geocentric practice

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15. Which of the following terms represents employees who are citizens of the country where a company is headquartered?

A. Host-country nationals

B. Locals

C. Third-country nationals

D. Home-country nationals

E. International contractors