1. Which of the following phases of preparation for an international assignment involves providing information about the employee's community and parent-country workplace?

Preparation for departure from the home country

Preparation during the assignment itself

Preparation for the culture shock phase in the host country

Preparation for the return to the home country

Preparation for the honeymoon phase in the host country

2. Identify an advantage of the balance sheet approach.

It ensures that the expatriates maintain a balance between productivity and expected performance.

It develops the criteria for measuring the success of an overseas assignment.

It helps expatriate managers to recognize differences and similarities between cultures.

It helps managers to get the same standard of living as in the home country.

It helps expatriates to develop valuable skills during the overseas assignment.

3. Repatriation is the process of _____.

preparing employees to go on an overseas assignment

negotiation between unions and management

preparing employees to return home from a foreign assignment

helping employees to adjust to a new culture and its norms, values, and perspectives

preparing employees to work with host-country nationals