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International Management

Subject : business-skills
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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. ______ risk issues often take forms such as industry regulation - taxes on specific types of business activity and various restrictive local laws.






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






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






4. MNCs may use ____________ to evaluate political risk






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...






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






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






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






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






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






11. 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...






12. 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...






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






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






15. 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.






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






17. When market liberalization is delayed...






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






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






20. 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?






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






22. Positive organizational scholarship does not include...






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






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






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






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






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






29. 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






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






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






32. 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...






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






40. MNCs utilize Export maximums for generating...






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






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






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






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






45. 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






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






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






48. Social needs are...






49. 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.






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