In order to continue enjoying our site, we ask that you confirm your identity as a human. Thank you very much for your cooperation. True - An expatriate manager is a citizen of one country who is working abroad in one of the firm'ssubsidiaries.True - HRM professionals have a critically important strategic role.False - The most attractive staffing policy is the ethnocentric approach.True - Cultural myopia refers to a firm's failure to understand host-country cultural differences thatrequire different approaches to marketing and management.True - In the case of an ethnocentric approach, it is possible that managers may make decisions that areethically suspect because they do not understand the culture in which they are managing.False - A firm that adopts a polycentric approach to staffing is likely to suffer from cultural myopia.False - Firms may choose an ethnocentric approach to staffing as opposed to a polycentric approachbecause of the cost savings it promotes.False - A geocentric approach tends to weaken local responsiveness.True - A citizen of Japan who moves to the United States to work at Microsoft would be classified as aninpatriate.False - Expatriate failure refers to a manager's failure to understand host-country cultural norms andvalues, leading to ineffective work.False - In a seminal study, R. L. Tung revealed that for European firms, the top reason for expatriatefailure was the inability of the manager to cope with larger overseas responsibilities.
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