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International Management
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. _______ investments involve the production of goods or services that are the same as those produced at home.
The home country
Horizontal
Theory Y
Extractive companies
2. As a general statement - most evidence indicates that European managers tend to use this approach to leadership.
Encourages harmony - responsiveness and sensibility
It gives first movers a significant advantage over later entrants
Environmental scanning
Participative
3. Controls that use reports and other written forms of communication to control operations are...
Goal-setting theory
Encourages harmony - responsiveness and sensibility
Indirect
Theory Z
4. A multinational structural arrangement that combines elements of function - product and geographic designs - while relying on a network arrangement to link worldwide subsidiaries is referred to as a...
Transnational network structure
International
Codetermination
Not extremely popular among MNCs
5. In general - some evidence suggests that testing is...
Idealized influence - inspirational motivation - intellectual stimulation and individualized consideration
Expropriation
It gives first movers a significant advantage over later entrants
Not extremely popular among MNCs
6. William Ouchi's theory of leadership - which combines Japanese and U.S. assumptions and approaches to leader behavior is referred to as...
Paternalistic
Not extremely popular among MNCs
Theory Z
Environmental scanning
7. ______ risk issues often take forms such as industry regulation - taxes on specific types of business activity and various restrictive local laws.
Theory Z
Joint venture
Micro
Indirect
8. The first assumption about the motivation process is that it is...
Global
It gives first movers a significant advantage over later entrants
Universal
Transnational network structure
9. Which of the following MNCs places local nationals in key positions and allows these managers to appoint and develop their own people?
Ethnocentric
Polycentric
Content and process
Not extremely popular among MNCs
10. Which of the following leaders takes action or intervenes in situations only when standards are NOT met?
Encourages harmony - responsiveness and sensibility
Global
Passive management-by-exception leader
Environmental scanning
11. As far as __________ are concerned - European firms are as centralized than American firms
Control measures
Theory Z
Social conditions
Participative
12. In work motivation - factors internally controlled - such as responsibility - achievement and the work itself are referred to as...
Financial incentives
Participative
Strategy implementation
Job content factors
13. The two-factor theory of motivation holds that two sets of factors influence job satisfaction. These are...
the need for power and status
Hygiene - motivators
Entrepreneurship
Ethnocentric
14. Expatriate salaries typically are set according to the base pay of...
Political imperative
Environmental scanning
Micro
The home country
15. This certification is becoming a necessary prerequisite to doing business in the EU and also is increasingly used as a screening criterion for bidding on contracts or getting business in the United States and other parts of the world.
ISO 9000
Not extremely popular among MNCs
Global
Lump-sum method
16. When the need for national responsiveness is low and the need for global integration is also low - which of the following strategies would be appropriate?
Continuous improvement
International
Idealized influence - inspirational motivation - intellectual stimulation and individualized consideration
It gives first movers a significant advantage over later entrants
17. _____ are local managers who are hired by the MNC.
The home country
Global area division structure
Host-country nationals
Codetermination
18. Not a quality needed to be a servant leader
Entrepreneurship
Environmental scanning
Host-country nationals
Horizontal
19. Work-motivation theories can be broken down into two general categories which are...
Content and process
Entrepreneurship
Job content factors
Micro
20. The output control in which profit responsibility is shared with product and geographic units is characteristic of a...
Matrix structure
Participative
corporate objectives
Polycentric
21. In a ____ investment - the goods or services produced are NOT similar to those produced at home.
Organizational and personal
Conglomerate
Goal-setting theory
Micro
22. MNCs may use ____________ to evaluate political risk
Participative
International division structure
Environmental scanning
Regional instabilities
23. A structural arrangement that handles all international operations out of a division created for this purpose is referred to as a...
Codetermination
Regional instabilities
International division structure
Matrix structure
24. To motivate employees - especially in foreign countries with high individualism companies tend to offer...
the need for power and status
Financial incentives
Strategy implementation
Franchise
25. The theory that focuses on how individuals go about setting goals and responding to them and the overall impact of this process on motivation is...
Political imperative
Goal-setting theory
Content and process
Training
26. In recent years_______ risk analysis has become of increasing concern to MNCs because of the growing number of countries that are finding their economies in trouble as in Southeast Asia or even worse - unable to make the transition to a market-drive
The home country
A hygiene factor
Macro
Paternalistic
27. These MNCs do all of their training at their headquarters.
Global
Expropriation
Ethnocentric
ISO 9000
28. Although a number of approaches to decision-making are used around the world - the overall trend currently is toward...
Continuous improvement
Centralization
Global product division structure
Universal
29. Positive organizational scholarship does not include...
Theory Z
Polycentric
Transformational
Followers
30. According to Bass - the most effective leaders were characterized by four interrelated factors. These are...
Idealized influence - inspirational motivation - intellectual stimulation and individualized consideration
Regional instabilities
Total quality management
Transformational
31. The external control process differs from the internal control in that the external control...
Ethnocentric
Universal
Encourages harmony - responsiveness and sensibility
Indirect
32. A legal system that requires workers and their managers to discuss major decisions is referred to as....
Organizational and personal
Participative
Participative
Codetermination
33. Price controls - financing restrictions - export commitments - taxes and local-sourcing requirements are examples of...
Operational risks
Control measures
Inpatriate
Goal-setting theory
34. ________ are designed to tap specialized expertise or other resources in the company's worldwide subsidiaries.
Financial incentives
Specialized operations
Matrix structure
A hygiene factor
35. The adjustment model of the selection procedure for international assignments would include...
Theory Z
Codetermination
foreign currency
Training and previous experience
36. _____________ do not encourage the use of centralized decision-making
Organizational and personal
Content and process
International division structure
Heterogeneous product lines
37. The objectives of the foreign operation and the ___________ are similar
Not extremely popular among MNCs
Horizontal
Codetermination
corporate objectives
38. Kaizen is a Japanese term that means...
Transnational network structure
Theory Y
Continuous improvement
foreign currency
39. One of the most important foci in _____ is the market and includes the role of all potential competitors and the relationships surrounding those competitors - such as affiliation with one another or the connection between the company and its custome
Environmental scanning
Global product division structure
Global
Horizontal
40. The top-ranking goal for professional technical personnel from various countries is...
Regional instabilities
Training
Macro
It gives first movers a significant advantage over later entrants
41. An individual from a host-country or a third-country national who is assigned to work in the home country is a...
Market niche
Inpatriate
foreign currency
Not extremely popular among MNCs
42. As an organizational characteristic - _____ is the assigning of individuals to specific - well-defined tasks.
Specialized operations
Training
Specialization
Passive management-by-exception leader
43. An organizational strategy and the accompanying techniques that result in the delivery of high-quality products or services to customers is referred to as...
Transnational network structure
Total quality management
Social conditions
Passive management-by-exception leader
44. The seizure of businesses by a host country with little - if any - compensation to the owners is referred to as...
Expropriation
Hygiene - motivators
It gives first movers a significant advantage over later entrants
Inpatriate
45. This is an agreement in which two or more partners own and control an overseas business.
Global product division structure
Joint venture
Global area division structure
Repatriation
46. Salary under Herzberg's theory is...
Theory Y
Regional instabilities
The home country
A hygiene factor
47. This strategy is appropriate when the need for national responsiveness is low and the need for globalization integration is high.
Content and process
Paternalistic
Global
Content-oriented
48. A structural arrangement in which domestic divisions are given worldwide responsibility for product groups is referred to as a...
corporate objectives
Ralative bargaining power
Global product division structure
Passive management-by-exception leader
49. A global functional division structure is used primarily by...
Centralization
Political imperative
A vital area for MNCs to assess and manage
Extractive companies
50. These leaders are visionary agents with a sense of mission - who are capable of motivating their followers to accept new goals and new ways of doing things.
Extractive companies
Social conditions
A hygiene factor
Transformational