Adam, a Human Resource Professional, Is Preparing for Marianne, a U.S

question 8

Multiple Choice

Adam, a human resource professional, is preparing for Marianne, a U.S. production manager, to take an assignment at a new facility in Vietnam. Adam wants to measure Marianne's success in establishing high productivity, so he uses the excellent productivity numbers Marianne achieved in her current assignment as a basis for setting performance goals for the Vietnamese position. How could this method of measuring performance be improved?

• A) by using communication technology to send frequent updates of the performance measures
• B) by raising the measure to motivate Marianne to improve on her past accomplishments
• C) by lowering the measure to account for Marianne's limited knowledge of Vietnamese
• D) by adjusting the measure to account for the facility being in a different time zone
• E) by adjusting the measure for local factors that could affect productivity

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