1. A U.S. based high tech company has built a R&D office in Bangalore, India. Four years have passed since the Greenfield operation was successfully built. During this time, the new location has taken on higher priority engineering projects and trained and developed managerial skills of its newly recruited manages inBangalore.Headquarters wants the office to take on a new engineering project that would expand its business in the U.S. by adding a new product line. This project has been identified as the most important objective for the corporation in the mid-term. The project is still in the phase of identifying specifications and developing milestones, where the engineering management team is working closely with the product manager. The management team understand that is must create an international assignment program to have this project run smoothly. The team believes that extended business travel would be the most appropriate program.In order t confirm their belief, the HR manager does extensive research. The analysis shows that extended business travel will result in $10,000,000 additional revenue in the first year and $5,000,000 additional revenue in the second year due to the customization of the product to customer demand. The cost of theprogram is $400,000 initial investment plus a variable cost of $100,000 per year. What is the break-even point

A) 2.4 months
B) 4.8 months
C) 6 months
D) 2 months



2. A corporation decides to pursue a participative management style in order to make improvements in their operational efficiencies. Which of the following processes is the organization utilizing in order to achieve their strategic goal?

A) Continual renewal process
B) Total quality management
C) Horizontal learning process
D) Entrepreneurial process



3. According to the global performance management process, an organization should be aliging company systems in phases EXCEPT in which of the following stages?

A) Specifying each employee - s performance plan
B) Defining global business strategy and objectives
C) Linking benefits & rewards as well as employee development to the process
D) Conducting the appraisal with each employee



4. After performing a global gap analysis, the global HR team has identified an initiative to identify at least three potential candidates for each Senior Director and VP position. In order to build accountability for implementing this initiative, which of the following pieces of information is NOT necessary?

A) Source of resources
B) Modes of communication
C) Benefit to the individual and organization
D) Developing S.M.A.R.T objectives



5. Which of the following type of listening is occurring when a person is thinking. 'Robert has some legitimate points about the importance of quality and its importance in the company - s growth' while listening to a ISO-9001 training session?

A) Active
B) Empathic
C) Informational
D) Evaluative