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

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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.
-Which of the following is a drawback of Jerome's staffing approach?

• A) expense to relocate managers
• B) potential for losing control of the host-country operations
• C) potential for losing control of the home-country operations
• D) inability to re-create local operations in the image of the home-country operations

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