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International Management

Subject : business-skills
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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. These agreements typically require payment of a fee upfront and then a percentage of the revenues.






2. 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.






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






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






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






6. ________ are designed to tap specialized expertise or other resources in the company's worldwide subsidiaries.






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






8. 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.






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






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






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






12. Social needs are...






13. MNCs may use ____________ to evaluate political risk






14. The output control in which profit responsibility is shared with product and geographic units is characteristic of a...






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






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






17. 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






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






19. To motivate employees - especially in foreign countries with high individualism companies tend to offer...






20. According to Bass - the most effective leaders were characterized by four interrelated factors. These are...






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






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






23. 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...






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






25. Typically - MNCs utilizing this approach to strategic planning use a country-centered or multi-domestic strategy.






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






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






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






29. The external control process differs from the internal control in that the external control...






30. 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.






31. 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






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






33. When market liberalization is delayed...






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






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






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






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. Positive organizational scholarship does not include...






39. Not a quality needed to be a servant leader






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






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






42. The process of providing goods and services in accord with a plan of action is...






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






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






45. Which of the following leaders takes action or intervenes in situations only when standards are NOT met?






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






47. 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?






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






49. A global functional division structure is used primarily by...






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