1. Right Answer: C
Explanation: Because of technologies and the growing ease of doing business across borders, a global organization is no longer defined by its size or physical presence in multiple countries but by its global strategy.
2. Right Answer: D
Explanation: An HR professional's goal in considering any aspect of globalization is to strive to understand which globalization events, forces, and trends are significant for a given organization and for HR responsibilities in that organization. Whatever the force's type or origin, its impact will be unique for that organization.
3. Right Answer: B
Explanation: Globalization has made the role of HR more critical and more complex. In developing and implementing global strategies, global HR must constantly balance standardization of policies influenced by the organization's values and global strategy with the need to localize these policies through programs and practices that reflect organizational and national cultures and local laws.
4. Right Answer: A
Explanation: The World Economic Forum defines hyperconnectivity as the 'increasing digital interconnection of people—and things—anytime and anyplace.' It is the purely digital/virtual aspect of globalization's 'accelerating interconnectedness.'
5. Right Answer: A
Explanation: The integration of markets, nation-states, and technologies is enabling individuals, corporations, and nation-states to reach around the world farther, faster, deeper, and cheaper than ever before.
6. Right Answer: C
Explanation: HR can support strategic management by helping to create global strategy, aligning HR activities with it, adapting the activities to local needs, and enhancing communication between the organization and its stakeholders.
7. Right Answer: C
Explanation: In the growing demographic dichotomy, developed countries are facing an aging workforce while emerging economy workforces are much younger. So globalization has brought new attention to generational, as well as cultural, diversity. The diaspora of increased global migration has made the workforce increasingly diverse in all countries.
8. Right Answer: B
Explanation: Organizations are pushed toward globalization in reaction to changes in the business environment (such as limited market opportunities in their home countries). The other factors listed here are 'pull' factors. Organizations are pulled toward globalization through the promise of achieving greater organizational value.
9. Right Answer: C
Explanation: Pull factors are those attractions to globalization that support what an organization wants to achieve--in this case, greater control over strategic goals. The other factors are 'push' factors, ones that oblige an organization to go global to remain competitive.
10. Right Answer: C
Explanation: In a geocentric organization, an international company is seen as a team, with management talent coming from any location in the enterprise. The strategic plan is to balance the global strategy with local culture and regulations.
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