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