Scenario: Swingset International Jerome Johnston, the Human Resource Manager at the U.S.-Based Swingset

question 62

Multiple Choice

Scenario: Swingset International
Jerome Johnston, the human resource manager at the U.S.-based Swingset International, is developing an international staffing policy for the company. Jerome personally believes Swingset should send managers from the United States to manage each subsidiary. But the CEO of the company, Valerie Vermont, believes subsidiary operations ought to be managed by individuals from the host country.
-The approach recommended by Jerome is called ________.

• A) vertical integration
• B) ethnocentric staffing
• C) horizontal integration
• D) geocentric staffing

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Definitions:

Zone of Proximal Development

A concept in developmental psychology which suggests that learning occurs in a region between a child's ability to perform a task under adult guidance and their ability to solve it independently.

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Thomas and Chess

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