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International Management

Subject : business-skills
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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. The external control process differs from the internal control in that the external control...






2. Social needs are...






3. Not a quality needed to be a servant leader






4. Kaizen is a Japanese term that means...






5. A structural arrangement in which domestic divisions are given worldwide responsibility for product groups is referred to as a...






6. As a general statement - most evidence indicates that European managers tend to use this approach to leadership.






7. The two-factor theory of motivation holds that two sets of factors influence job satisfaction. These are...






8. Work-motivation theories can be broken down into two general categories which are...






9. A legal system that requires workers and their managers to discuss major decisions is referred to as....






10. Although a number of approaches to decision-making are used around the world - the overall trend currently is toward...






11. 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.






12. _______ investments involve the production of goods or services that are the same as those produced at home.






13. Positive organizational scholarship does not include...






14. Most research in international human resource management has been _____ - because these theories examine motivation in more general terms and are more useful in creating a composite picture of employee motivation in a particular country or region.






15. 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...






16. A structure under which global operations are organized on a geographic rather than a product basis is referred to as a...






17. These agreements typically require payment of a fee upfront and then a percentage of the revenues.






18. These MNCs do all of their training at their headquarters.






19. _____ are local managers who are hired by the MNC.






20. The adjustment model of the selection procedure for international assignments would include...






21. This strategy is appropriate when the need for national responsiveness is low and the need for globalization integration is high.






22. Which type of leadership is popular in many technologically advanced countries?






23. In a ____ investment - the goods or services produced are NOT similar to those produced at home.






24. 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...






25. A key success factor is a factor that is necessary for a firm to compete effectively in a...






26. The objectives of the foreign operation and the ___________ are similar






27. An organizational strategy and the accompanying techniques that result in the delivery of high-quality products or services to customers is referred to as...






28. An individual from a host-country or a third-country national who is assigned to work in the home country is a...






29. William Ouchi's theory of leadership - which combines Japanese and U.S. assumptions and approaches to leader behavior is referred to as...






30. 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






31. As an organizational characteristic - _____ is the assigning of individuals to specific - well-defined tasks.






32. 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...






33. The return to one's home country from an overseas management assignment is referred to as...






34. 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.






35. ______ risk issues often take forms such as industry regulation - taxes on specific types of business activity and various restrictive local laws.






36. MNCs may use ____________ to evaluate political risk






37. 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.






38. Over the past decade political risk has become...






39. The top-ranking goal for professional technical personnel from various countries is...






40. 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






41. _____________ do not encourage the use of centralized decision-making






42. Training programs are useful in preparing people for overseas assignments for many reasons. These reasons can be put into two general categories which are...






43. Controls that use reports and other written forms of communication to control operations are...






44. A structural arrangement that handles all international operations out of a division created for this purpose is referred to as a...






45. The seizure of businesses by a host country with little - if any - compensation to the owners is referred to as...






46. 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.






47. As far as __________ are concerned - European firms are as centralized than American firms






48. Salary under Herzberg's theory is...






49. The first assumption about the motivation process is that it is...






50. The theory behind_____ is quite simple. The MNC works to maintain a stronger bargaining power position than that of the host country.