GPHR

GPHR practice questions, page 5 of 8, with answer review and explanations.

Question 21

Which of the following is NOT a reason why individuals refuse international assignments?

  1. Personal familial issues, like spouse is reluctant to change careers or children are already in high school
  2. No clear, identified path for career development guaranteed after the assignment
  3. Financial incentives are inadequate
  4. Company’s poor record of successful expatriations programs

Question 22

Which of the following challenges is faced PRIMARILY when developing a global competency model?

  1. Base model only on past experience
  2. View the global plan as a sum of individual country plans
  3. Differences in perceptions of various attributes
  4. Balance the day-to-day demands with strategic plans

Question 23

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 trained and developed managerial skills of its newly recruited manages 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 team is working closely with the product manager. Which of the following types international assignment is the most appropriate for the product manager during this phase of the project?

  1. Extended business travel
  2. Long-term expatriation
  3. International commuting
  4. Localized transfer

Question 24

Which of the following measures the level of learning achieved by the participants of a training program?

  1. 360-degree feedback process
  2. Performance tests
  3. Performance appraisals
  4. Pre-/post measures

Question 25

Which of the following processes attempts to determine the relative worth of jobs within an organization?

  1. Job design
  2. Job evaluation
  3. Job analysis
  4. Comparable worth