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International Management
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1. Salary under Herzberg's theory is...
A hygiene factor
Total quality management
Universal
Conglomerate
2. The adjustment model of the selection procedure for international assignments would include...
Control measures
Training and previous experience
Ralative bargaining power
Hygiene - motivators
3. An approach to developing an expatriate compensation package that involves giving the expat a predetermined amount of money and letting the individual make his/her own decisions regarding how to spend it is referred to as the...
Strategy implementation
Lump-sum method
Franchise
Operational risks
4. _____________ do not encourage the use of centralized decision-making
Heterogeneous product lines
Regional instabilities
the need for power and status
Franchise
5. Training programs are useful in preparing people for overseas assignments for many reasons. These reasons can be put into two general categories which are...
A hygiene factor
The home country
Paternalistic
Organizational and personal
6. Expatriate salaries typically are set according to the base pay of...
Transformational
Expropriation
The home country
Social conditions
7. In a ____ investment - the goods or services produced are NOT similar to those produced at home.
Inpatriate
A hygiene factor
Theory Y
Conglomerate
8. In general - some evidence suggests that testing is...
Expropriation
Strategy implementation
Not extremely popular among MNCs
Organizational and personal
9. Social needs are...
Specialization
Micro
Entrepreneurship
the need for power and status
10. 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.
Paternalistic
Transformational
Macro
Micro
11. According to Bass - the most effective leaders were characterized by four interrelated factors. These are...
Continuous improvement
Idealized influence - inspirational motivation - intellectual stimulation and individualized consideration
Franchise
Training and previous experience
12. As far as __________ are concerned - European firms are as centralized than American firms
Transformational
Global area division structure
Control measures
Host-country nationals
13. 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...
Idealized influence - inspirational motivation - intellectual stimulation and individualized consideration
Transnational network structure
Heterogeneous product lines
Repatriation
14. Price controls - financing restrictions - export commitments - taxes and local-sourcing requirements are examples of...
Not extremely popular among MNCs
Operational risks
A hygiene factor
the need for power and status
15. A structural arrangement in which domestic divisions are given worldwide responsibility for product groups is referred to as a...
Paternalistic
Global product division structure
Environmental scanning
Hygiene - motivators
16. The return to one's home country from an overseas management assignment is referred to as...
Repatriation
Extractive companies
Specialized operations
It gives first movers a significant advantage over later entrants
17. The theory behind_____ is quite simple. The MNC works to maintain a stronger bargaining power position than that of the host country.
Inpatriate
Social conditions
Ralative bargaining power
Horizontal
18. These agreements typically require payment of a fee upfront and then a percentage of the revenues.
Regional instabilities
Idealized influence - inspirational motivation - intellectual stimulation and individualized consideration
Franchise
Passive management-by-exception leader
19. These leaders expect everyone to work hard; in turn - the employees will be guaranteed employment and given security benefits such as medical and retirement programs.
Hygiene - motivators
Ethnocentric
Participative
Paternalistic
20. The process of providing goods and services in accord with a plan of action is...
Total quality management
Training and previous experience
Strategy implementation
A vital area for MNCs to assess and manage
21. Typically - MNCs utilizing this approach to strategic planning use a country-centered or multi-domestic strategy.
Universal
Theory Y
Participative
Political imperative
22. A key success factor is a factor that is necessary for a firm to compete effectively in a...
Market niche
Content-oriented
the need for power and status
Strategy implementation
23. According to this theory - a great deal of creative potential basically goes untapped and if these abilities can be tapped - workers will provide much higher quantity and quality of output.
Hygiene - motivators
Theory Y
Job content factors
Entrepreneurship
24. A global functional division structure is used primarily by...
Training and previous experience
Encourages harmony - responsiveness and sensibility
Indirect
Extractive companies
25. As an organizational characteristic - _____ is the assigning of individuals to specific - well-defined tasks.
Specialization
Passive management-by-exception leader
Joint venture
Content-oriented
26. _______ investments involve the production of goods or services that are the same as those produced at home.
Passive management-by-exception leader
Horizontal
Control measures
Lump-sum method
27. Not a quality needed to be a servant leader
Financial incentives
Entrepreneurship
Specialized operations
Continuous improvement
28. 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...
Specialization
Theory Z
Goal-setting theory
Participative
29. William Ouchi's theory of leadership - which combines Japanese and U.S. assumptions and approaches to leader behavior is referred to as...
the need for power and status
Theory Z
Job content factors
Participative
30. Kaizen is a Japanese term that means...
Participative
Joint venture
Continuous improvement
Idealized influence - inspirational motivation - intellectual stimulation and individualized consideration
31. A legal system that requires workers and their managers to discuss major decisions is referred to as....
Codetermination
Inpatriate
Training and previous experience
Regional instabilities
32. Although a number of approaches to decision-making are used around the world - the overall trend currently is toward...
Centralization
Ralative bargaining power
A vital area for MNCs to assess and manage
Global product division structure
33. The first assumption about the motivation process is that it is...
Not extremely popular among MNCs
Universal
Extractive companies
Content-oriented
34. This is an agreement in which two or more partners own and control an overseas business.
Joint venture
Horizontal
Universal
Host-country nationals
35. The output control in which profit responsibility is shared with product and geographic units is characteristic of a...
Job content factors
Franchise
Centralization
Matrix structure
36. As a general statement - most evidence indicates that European managers tend to use this approach to leadership.
Participative
Encourages harmony - responsiveness and sensibility
Inpatriate
Repatriation
37. Which of the following leaders takes action or intervenes in situations only when standards are NOT met?
Inpatriate
Passive management-by-exception leader
Franchise
Training
38. The two-factor theory of motivation holds that two sets of factors influence job satisfaction. These are...
corporate objectives
Global area division structure
foreign currency
Hygiene - motivators
39. A structural arrangement that handles all international operations out of a division created for this purpose is referred to as a...
Training
International division structure
Market niche
Joint venture
40. Which of the following MNCs places local nationals in key positions and allows these managers to appoint and develop their own people?
Regional instabilities
Goal-setting theory
Polycentric
Organizational and personal
41. Controls that use reports and other written forms of communication to control operations are...
foreign currency
Social conditions
Indirect
Lump-sum method
42. The external control process differs from the internal control in that the external control...
Expropriation
Encourages harmony - responsiveness and sensibility
Regional instabilities
Hygiene - motivators
43. ______ risk issues often take forms such as industry regulation - taxes on specific types of business activity and various restrictive local laws.
A hygiene factor
Micro
Entrepreneurship
Control measures
44. To motivate employees - especially in foreign countries with high individualism companies tend to offer...
corporate objectives
Financial incentives
Operational risks
Transformational
45. In work motivation - factors internally controlled - such as responsibility - achievement and the work itself are referred to as...
A vital area for MNCs to assess and manage
Job content factors
Centralization
Entrepreneurship
46. MNCs attempt to manage political risk through a quantification process - to derive an overall rating of the degree of political risk in a given jurisdiction. However they can't quite quantify...
Transformational
Training
Paternalistic
Social conditions
47. Positive organizational scholarship does not include...
Conglomerate
Followers
Expropriation
A hygiene factor
48. 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
Passive management-by-exception leader
Joint venture
Total quality management
49. 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?
International division structure
International
Paternalistic
Strategy implementation
50. Work-motivation theories can be broken down into two general categories which are...
International
Content and process
Political imperative
Macro
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