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SHRM-SCP Workplace Questions - Part 22

Jenny Clarke

Mon, 10 Feb 2025

SHRM-SCP Workplace Questions - Part 22

1. What type of product would provide an example of reverse innovation?

A) More expensive version of an existing product targeted for emerging economies
B) 'New' product that is actually a much older version of an existing product?ÿ
C) Product made by or for an emerging economy that is then sold in developed economies
D) Copycat product created via reverse engineering by a competing organization



2. For some of its operations, a multinational corporation has been hiring skilled workers who have left their countries because of civil unrest and natural catastrophes. In some cases as many as a hundred new employees may have emigrated from the same or neighboring towns. How might the head of HR respond to this situation?

A) Restrict the number of employees from the same cultures who can be assigned to a work unit.
B) Require that all employees be fluent in the language of the headquarters country.
C) Request additional budget to conduct retraining for the new employees.
D) Offer cultural training for both managers and their new employees.



3. Global Strategy According to the upstream/downstream strategic model, what HR activities are most likely to be placed at headquarters?

A) Workforce alignment
B) Compensation
C) Benefits
D) Labor relations



4. Which best describes a global company with a polycentric approach to globalization?

A) Global policies are adopted and implemented at local-country levels.
B) Local cultural and legal compensation norms are understood and implemented.
C) Cultural norms and compensation are reviewed and implemented by headquarters.
D) Headquarters compensation policies are modified for legal compliance only.



5. Which of Perlmutter's orientations is demonstrated by a global organization in which talent staffing plans have employees work within regions and develop global perspectives where there is a strong business need?

A) Ethnocentric
B) Regiocentric
C) Polycentric
D) Geocentric



1. Right Answer: C
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2. Right Answer: D
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3. Right Answer: A
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4. Right Answer: B
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5. Right Answer: B
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