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