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International Management
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Expatriate salaries typically are set according to the base pay of...
Repatriation
The home country
Operational risks
Strategy implementation
2. A structural arrangement that handles all international operations out of a division created for this purpose is referred to as a...
Idealized influence - inspirational motivation - intellectual stimulation and individualized consideration
Training
International division structure
ISO 9000
3. ________ are designed to tap specialized expertise or other resources in the company's worldwide subsidiaries.
Specialized operations
Encourages harmony - responsiveness and sensibility
Transformational
the need for power and status
4. Although a number of approaches to decision-making are used around the world - the overall trend currently is toward...
Participative
Centralization
Ralative bargaining power
A vital area for MNCs to assess and manage
5. 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
Micro
Centralization
Training and previous experience
6. ______ risk issues often take forms such as industry regulation - taxes on specific types of business activity and various restrictive local laws.
Training and previous experience
Micro
Environmental scanning
It gives first movers a significant advantage over later entrants
7. When market liberalization is delayed...
It gives first movers a significant advantage over later entrants
Polycentric
Specialized operations
Training
8. A structural arrangement in which domestic divisions are given worldwide responsibility for product groups is referred to as a...
The home country
Participative
Global product division structure
Training and previous experience
9. William Ouchi's theory of leadership - which combines Japanese and U.S. assumptions and approaches to leader behavior is referred to as...
Theory Z
A vital area for MNCs to assess and manage
Universal
foreign currency
10. _____ are local managers who are hired by the MNC.
corporate objectives
Host-country nationals
Participative
Passive management-by-exception leader
11. The theory behind_____ is quite simple. The MNC works to maintain a stronger bargaining power position than that of the host country.
It gives first movers a significant advantage over later entrants
Transformational
Ralative bargaining power
Specialized operations
12. Work-motivation theories can be broken down into two general categories which are...
Conglomerate
Content and process
Heterogeneous product lines
Paternalistic
13. 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.
Social conditions
Content-oriented
ISO 9000
Passive management-by-exception leader
14. In work motivation - factors internally controlled - such as responsibility - achievement and the work itself are referred to as...
Control measures
Job content factors
Ralative bargaining power
Idealized influence - inspirational motivation - intellectual stimulation and individualized consideration
15. As far as __________ are concerned - European firms are as centralized than American firms
Control measures
Specialized operations
Transnational network structure
International division structure
16. To motivate employees - especially in foreign countries with high individualism companies tend to offer...
Financial incentives
Global product division structure
Political imperative
A vital area for MNCs to assess and manage
17. The first assumption about the motivation process is that it is...
Universal
Organizational and personal
Franchise
Training
18. Which of the following MNCs places local nationals in key positions and allows these managers to appoint and develop their own people?
Environmental scanning
Polycentric
Strategy implementation
Host-country nationals
19. Positive organizational scholarship does not include...
Followers
A hygiene factor
Regional instabilities
Matrix structure
20. _____________ do not encourage the use of centralized decision-making
Host-country nationals
Heterogeneous product lines
International division structure
Ralative bargaining power
21. 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.
The home country
Paternalistic
Franchise
Transformational
22. Price controls - financing restrictions - export commitments - taxes and local-sourcing requirements are examples of...
Specialization
Ralative bargaining power
corporate objectives
Operational risks
23. The top-ranking goal for professional technical personnel from various countries is...
Training
Lump-sum method
Repatriation
Specialized operations
24. An organizational strategy and the accompanying techniques that result in the delivery of high-quality products or services to customers is referred to as...
Extractive companies
Global
ISO 9000
Total quality management
25. This is an agreement in which two or more partners own and control an overseas business.
Strategy implementation
Control measures
Continuous improvement
Joint venture
26. 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...
Host-country nationals
Environmental scanning
Transformational
Transnational network structure
27. A global functional division structure is used primarily by...
Indirect
Job content factors
Macro
Extractive companies
28. The external control process differs from the internal control in that the external control...
Extractive companies
Inpatriate
Joint venture
Encourages harmony - responsiveness and sensibility
29. 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.
Theory Y
Horizontal
Paternalistic
Training
30. 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
Ethnocentric
Macro
A vital area for MNCs to assess and manage
The home country
31. A key success factor is a factor that is necessary for a firm to compete effectively in a...
corporate objectives
Continuous improvement
Market niche
Theory Y
32. Controls that use reports and other written forms of communication to control operations are...
Indirect
Financial incentives
International
Polycentric
33. A legal system that requires workers and their managers to discuss major decisions is referred to as....
Content-oriented
Macro
Codetermination
Goal-setting theory
34. _______ investments involve the production of goods or services that are the same as those produced at home.
Extractive companies
Franchise
Horizontal
Organizational and personal
35. Typically - MNCs utilizing this approach to strategic planning use a country-centered or multi-domestic strategy.
Polycentric
Paternalistic
Political imperative
Social conditions
36. Which type of leadership is popular in many technologically advanced countries?
Paternalistic
Job content factors
Goal-setting theory
Participative
37. These agreements typically require payment of a fee upfront and then a percentage of the revenues.
Franchise
Matrix structure
Training
A hygiene factor
38. According to Bass - the most effective leaders were characterized by four interrelated factors. These are...
ISO 9000
Idealized influence - inspirational motivation - intellectual stimulation and individualized consideration
Job content factors
Continuous improvement
39. The process of providing goods and services in accord with a plan of action is...
corporate objectives
Strategy implementation
Matrix structure
Not extremely popular among MNCs
40. 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...
Social conditions
Transnational network structure
Content-oriented
Lump-sum method
41. 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.
Global product division structure
Participative
International
Content-oriented
42. The return to one's home country from an overseas management assignment is referred to as...
Centralization
Political imperative
Repatriation
Universal
43. Salary under Herzberg's theory is...
corporate objectives
Organizational and personal
A hygiene factor
Strategy implementation
44. MNCs may use ____________ to evaluate political risk
Organizational and personal
ISO 9000
Market niche
Regional instabilities
45. Training programs are useful in preparing people for overseas assignments for many reasons. These reasons can be put into two general categories which are...
ISO 9000
Micro
Organizational and personal
Lump-sum method
46. This strategy is appropriate when the need for national responsiveness is low and the need for globalization integration is high.
Conglomerate
Entrepreneurship
Codetermination
Global
47. An individual from a host-country or a third-country national who is assigned to work in the home country is a...
Inpatriate
Global
Ralative bargaining power
Training
48. In a ____ investment - the goods or services produced are NOT similar to those produced at home.
Macro
Not extremely popular among MNCs
Goal-setting theory
Conglomerate
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?
Training and previous experience
Ethnocentric
Matrix structure
International
50. A structure under which global operations are organized on a geographic rather than a product basis is referred to as a...
Global area division structure
Ethnocentric
Participative
corporate objectives