1. Which of the following is NOT the reason for expatriate failure?
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3. (a)Effective cultural training
   
   (b)Inability to cope or adjust to the environment
   
   (c)Personal or emotional problems
   
   (d)Lack of technical competence
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5. Question 2
6. Which statement is NOT the key characteristic for strategic human resource management?
7. (a)Make an effective use of employees that is different with organization long-term goal
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   (b)It links between the HR practices and the organizational environment
   
   (c)Role of strategic human resource management is to come up with HR policies and procedure that adhere to the laws and culture of the different countries
   
   (d)Goal is to effectively use of employees to gain competitive advantage against competitors
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10. Question 3
11. “Researchers identified the HR practices which were linked to higher organizational performance”. According to the statement, which of the following is best describe on it?
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13. (a)Contingency perspective
    
    (b)Bundle perspective
    
    (c)Configurational perspective
    
    (d)Universalistic perspective
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15. Question 4
16. How does inflation impact on human resource planning?
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18. (a)Wages increment to match inflation to attract talent
    
    (b)The need for finely turned social and emotional skills will grow to match with inflation
    
    (c)Improve working environment to match with inflation
    
    (d)Provide better retrenchment benefit to match inflation
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20. Question 5
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22. Which statement consists of the CORRECT components for the Ulrich model of HR specialization?
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    (a)Employee welfare, strategic business partner, administrative expert, communicator
    
    (b)Strategic communicator, administrative expert, strategic partner, employee advocate
    
    (c)Change agent, employee advocate, business partner, administrative expert
    
    (d)Strategic partner, change agent, administrative expert, employee advocate
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25. Question 6
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27. Job shadowing is a type of on-the-job employee job training. Which of the statement below is not the benefits of job shadowing?
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29. (a)Allow the employees to improve his/ her attitude
    
    
    (b)Gain deeper knowledge and understanding of other jobs
    
    (c)Learn more about the roles and responsibilities of other employees
    
    (d)See how other staff and teams work together
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31. Question 7
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33. A core competency can be developed through the following statement, EXCEPT:
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35. (a)Understand, develop and deploy employee skills
    
    (b)Create a work environment in which the employees are motivated, contributing and happy
    
    (c)Effective processes and workflow related o administrative role
    
    (d)HR practices that are common capability in the industry and do not create value or benefit to customers
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37. Question 8
38. The first step in the recruitment process is:
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40. (a)Analyse the job
    (b)Decide the application method
    
    (c)Decide the recruitment method
    
    (d)Advertising vacancy
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42. Question 9
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44. Which of the following explains “power distance”?
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    (a)Describe cultures in which the ties between individuals are loose
    
    (b)The extent to which the members of a culture feel threatened by uncertain situations
    
    (c)Measure the extent to which the less powerful members of the society accept the unequal distribution of power
    
    (d)Defined as a continuum with long-term and short-term orientation as its two poles
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48. Question 10
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50. Which of the following is the advantage of the polycentric approach in the host country?
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52. (a)Extensive knowledge of foreign markets and workplace
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    (b)Balanced local and global objectives
    
    (c)More tightly controlled
    
    (d)Forces understanding of global issues

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