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International Management

Subject : business-skills
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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. The process of providing goods and services in accord with a plan of action is...






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






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






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






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






6. When market liberalization is delayed...






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






8. 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...






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






10. 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.






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






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






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






14. MNCs utilize Export maximums for generating...






15. Positive organizational scholarship does not include...






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






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






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






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






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






21. 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...






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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.






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






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






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






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






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






35. Training programs are useful in preparing people for overseas assignments for many reasons. These reasons can be put into two general categories which are...






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






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






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






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






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






41. 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






42. 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.






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






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






45. 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.






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






47. 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...






48. 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






49. 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...






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