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International Management

Subject : business-skills
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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...






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






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






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






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






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






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






8. Social needs are...






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






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






11. 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...






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






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






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






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






16. MNCs utilize Export maximums for generating...






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






18. 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






19. 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.






20. 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...






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






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






23. Not a quality needed to be a servant leader






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






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






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






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






28. 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.






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






30. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






38. 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.






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






40. Positive organizational scholarship does not include...






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






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






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






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






45. The adjustment model of the selection procedure for international assignments would include...






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






47. 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.






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






49. When market liberalization is delayed...






50. Salary under Herzberg's theory is...