When an IC Hires and Trains Local, Host-Country People, the IC

question 47

Multiple Choice

When an IC hires and trains local, host-country people, the IC often:

• A) pays them too much and creates inflation.
• B) overtrains them to IC culture-based standards.
• C) may lose them to local firms or other ICs once they are trained.
• D) encourages their transfer, causing brain drain.
• E) two of the above.

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