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SHRM-CP WORKPLACE Questions - Part 2
1. Which major role does HR play in supporting global strategic management?
A) Creating HR policies that reinforce global inclusion versus local responsiveness
B) Ensuring that subsidiaries' workforces retain their local identities
C) Partnering to create the organization's global strategy
D) Defining strategies for local subsidiaries
2. How does the demographic dichotomy bring new attention to generational differences?
A) By encouraging innovation in emerging markets and then importing that knowledge to developed markets
B) By allowing for mass migration of individuals from their homeland to multiple destinations
C) By identifying educational and skills dividends and deficits between emerging and developed economies
D) By enhancing investment opportunities into equipment and organizations for a younger generation
3. Global Strategy Which of the following is a 'push' factor for global expansion?
A) Workforce mobility
B) Need for new markets
C) Greater strategic control
D) Special financing terms for investments
4. Which of the following is considered a 'pull' factor in attracting organizations toward globalization?
A) Government policies
B) Need for new markets
C) Greater strategic control
D) Globalized supply chain
5. Which is a benefit to a global organization of having a geocentric approach to its compensation and benefits strategy?
A) It infuses dominant beliefs and practices from the parent company to each of the host-country locations.
B) It allows the home country to exercise control over the benefit offerings in order to lower the cost of benefit administration.
C) It provides a single, cohesive approach that allows leaders to look at benefit offerings on a broader scale.
D) It helps in selecting benefits from within a particular region that match the needs of the host-country location.
A) Creating HR policies that reinforce global inclusion versus local responsiveness
B) Ensuring that subsidiaries' workforces retain their local identities
C) Partnering to create the organization's global strategy
D) Defining strategies for local subsidiaries
2. How does the demographic dichotomy bring new attention to generational differences?
A) By encouraging innovation in emerging markets and then importing that knowledge to developed markets
B) By allowing for mass migration of individuals from their homeland to multiple destinations
C) By identifying educational and skills dividends and deficits between emerging and developed economies
D) By enhancing investment opportunities into equipment and organizations for a younger generation
3. Global Strategy Which of the following is a 'push' factor for global expansion?
A) Workforce mobility
B) Need for new markets
C) Greater strategic control
D) Special financing terms for investments
4. Which of the following is considered a 'pull' factor in attracting organizations toward globalization?
A) Government policies
B) Need for new markets
C) Greater strategic control
D) Globalized supply chain
5. Which is a benefit to a global organization of having a geocentric approach to its compensation and benefits strategy?
A) It infuses dominant beliefs and practices from the parent company to each of the host-country locations.
B) It allows the home country to exercise control over the benefit offerings in order to lower the cost of benefit administration.
C) It provides a single, cohesive approach that allows leaders to look at benefit offerings on a broader scale.
D) It helps in selecting benefits from within a particular region that match the needs of the host-country location.
1. 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.
2. 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.
3. 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.
4. 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.
5. 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.
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.
2. 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.
3. 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.
4. 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.
5. 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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