Axtara, an Automobile Manufacturer, Has Several Factories in Foreign Countries

question 30

Multiple Choice

Axtara, an automobile manufacturer, has several factories in foreign countries. The management strongly believes in giving precedence to the values and perspectives of its home office over those of its foreign subsidiaries. As a result, the management hires workers from the home country to staff the upper-management positions in all the foreign offices of the company. In the context of the different staffing strategies used by international businesses, Axtara most likely uses the _____.

• A) geocentric staffing model
• B) regiocentric staffing model
• C) polycentric staffing model
• D) ethnocentric staffing model

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Definitions:

Enantiomers

Molecules that are mirror images of each other but cannot be superimposed on each other, much like left and right hands.

Diastereomers

Stereoisomers that are not mirror images of each other and have different physical and chemical properties.

Cahn-Ingold-Prelog

A set of rules used for the nomenclature of stereoisomers, aiding in the description of the spatial arrangement of atoms within molecules.

Asymmetric Carbons

Carbon atoms bonded to four different groups, resulting in chirality or the existence of nonsuperimposable mirror images.