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International Management

Subject : business-skills
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1. Salary under Herzberg's theory is...






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






3. When market liberalization is delayed...






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






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






6. Social needs are...






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






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






9. In a ____ investment - the goods or services produced are NOT similar to those produced at home.






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






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






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






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






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






15. Not a quality needed to be a servant leader






16. 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?






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






18. 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...






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






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






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.






22. 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.






23. 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.






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






26. 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.






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






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






29. 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...






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






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






32. MNCs utilize Export maximums for generating...






33. MNCs may use ____________ to evaluate political risk






34. _______ investments involve the production of goods or services that are the same as those produced at home.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






43. 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.






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






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






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






47. 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






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






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






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