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International Management

Subject : business-skills
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1. According to Bass - the most effective leaders were characterized by four interrelated factors. These are...






2. 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.






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






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...






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






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






7. This is an agreement in which two or more partners own and control an overseas business.






8. 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






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






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






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






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






13. In general - some evidence suggests that testing is...






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






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






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






17. When market liberalization is delayed...






18. 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.






19. 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






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






21. Expatriate salaries typically are set according to the base pay of...






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






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






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






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






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






27. 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.






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






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






30. Not a quality needed to be a servant leader






31. 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...






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






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






34. Price controls - financing restrictions - export commitments - taxes and local-sourcing requirements are examples of...






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






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






37. In work motivation - factors internally controlled - such as responsibility - achievement and the work itself are referred to as...






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






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






40. Positive organizational scholarship does not include...






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






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






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






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






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






46. Which of the following MNCs places local nationals in key positions and allows these managers to appoint and develop their own people?






47. 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...






48. Social needs are...






49. MNCs may use ____________ to evaluate political risk






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