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International Management
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Although a number of approaches to decision-making are used around the world - the overall trend currently is toward...
International
A vital area for MNCs to assess and manage
Organizational and personal
Centralization
2. A structural arrangement in which domestic divisions are given worldwide responsibility for product groups is referred to as a...
Global product division structure
Lump-sum method
Content and process
Global area division structure
3. The two-factor theory of motivation holds that two sets of factors influence job satisfaction. These are...
Ethnocentric
Not extremely popular among MNCs
Hygiene - motivators
Expropriation
4. 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...
Participative
Participative
Continuous improvement
Transnational network structure
5. This is an agreement in which two or more partners own and control an overseas business.
Specialization
Training
Joint venture
Ethnocentric
6. Kaizen is a Japanese term that means...
Social conditions
A vital area for MNCs to assess and manage
Goal-setting theory
Continuous improvement
7. A key success factor is a factor that is necessary for a firm to compete effectively in a...
Encourages harmony - responsiveness and sensibility
The home country
Market niche
A vital area for MNCs to assess and manage
8. In a ____ investment - the goods or services produced are NOT similar to those produced at home.
Conglomerate
Horizontal
Universal
Specialization
9. In general - some evidence suggests that testing is...
Inpatriate
Content-oriented
Extractive companies
Not extremely popular among MNCs
10. Expatriate salaries typically are set according to the base pay of...
Total quality management
Franchise
The home country
Organizational and personal
11. _____ are local managers who are hired by the MNC.
Repatriation
foreign currency
Conglomerate
Host-country nationals
12. The top-ranking goal for professional technical personnel from various countries is...
Macro
Goal-setting theory
International division structure
Training
13. MNCs utilize Export maximums for generating...
Host-country nationals
Idealized influence - inspirational motivation - intellectual stimulation and individualized consideration
foreign currency
Control measures
14. These agreements typically require payment of a fee upfront and then a percentage of the revenues.
Franchise
International
Polycentric
Heterogeneous product lines
15. The first assumption about the motivation process is that it is...
Encourages harmony - responsiveness and sensibility
Universal
Matrix structure
Theory Z
16. The seizure of businesses by a host country with little - if any - compensation to the owners is referred to as...
International
Macro
Expropriation
Encourages harmony - responsiveness and sensibility
17. The objectives of the foreign operation and the ___________ are similar
Control measures
corporate objectives
ISO 9000
Theory Y
18. 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
Transnational network structure
Conglomerate
Followers
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.
Indirect
Content-oriented
Environmental scanning
Theory Z
20. 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.
Codetermination
ISO 9000
Social conditions
Training and previous experience
21. 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?
The home country
Matrix structure
Polycentric
International
22. 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...
Participative
Content-oriented
Host-country nationals
Social conditions
23. Work-motivation theories can be broken down into two general categories which are...
Environmental scanning
Social conditions
Global area division structure
Content and process
24. An individual from a host-country or a third-country national who is assigned to work in the home country is a...
Paternalistic
Inpatriate
A hygiene factor
Hygiene - motivators
25. ________ are designed to tap specialized expertise or other resources in the company's worldwide subsidiaries.
Specialized operations
Participative
Paternalistic
Not extremely popular among MNCs
26. Not a quality needed to be a servant leader
Entrepreneurship
Specialized operations
Control measures
Expropriation
27. ______ risk issues often take forms such as industry regulation - taxes on specific types of business activity and various restrictive local laws.
Transformational
Horizontal
Participative
Micro
28. The adjustment model of the selection procedure for international assignments would include...
Codetermination
Transformational
Social conditions
Training and previous experience
29. A global functional division structure is used primarily by...
Market niche
Specialization
Extractive companies
Macro
30. 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.
Paternalistic
Social conditions
Franchise
Organizational and personal
31. According to Bass - the most effective leaders were characterized by four interrelated factors. These are...
Ethnocentric
Idealized influence - inspirational motivation - intellectual stimulation and individualized consideration
Paternalistic
International
32. As an organizational characteristic - _____ is the assigning of individuals to specific - well-defined tasks.
Expropriation
Inpatriate
Specialization
Polycentric
33. William Ouchi's theory of leadership - which combines Japanese and U.S. assumptions and approaches to leader behavior is referred to as...
International
Specialized operations
Social conditions
Theory Z
34. An organizational strategy and the accompanying techniques that result in the delivery of high-quality products or services to customers is referred to as...
Total quality management
Indirect
Participative
Entrepreneurship
35. Typically - MNCs utilizing this approach to strategic planning use a country-centered or multi-domestic strategy.
the need for power and status
Participative
Entrepreneurship
Political imperative
36. As a general statement - most evidence indicates that European managers tend to use this approach to leadership.
Job content factors
Paternalistic
Participative
Organizational and personal
37. Which of the following leaders takes action or intervenes in situations only when standards are NOT met?
Passive management-by-exception leader
Global area division structure
Hygiene - motivators
Extractive companies
38. A structural arrangement that handles all international operations out of a division created for this purpose is referred to as a...
International division structure
Training
Job content factors
Micro
39. In work motivation - factors internally controlled - such as responsibility - achievement and the work itself are referred to as...
Franchise
Job content factors
Content-oriented
Global product division structure
40. MNCs may use ____________ to evaluate political risk
Repatriation
Matrix structure
Regional instabilities
Micro
41. The output control in which profit responsibility is shared with product and geographic units is characteristic of a...
Control measures
Matrix structure
Training
Host-country nationals
42. 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
Paternalistic
corporate objectives
Macro
Specialization
43. Training programs are useful in preparing people for overseas assignments for many reasons. These reasons can be put into two general categories which are...
International division structure
Organizational and personal
Horizontal
corporate objectives
44. 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...
Macro
Lump-sum method
Ralative bargaining power
Regional instabilities
45. 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...
Not extremely popular among MNCs
Transnational network structure
Goal-setting theory
Horizontal
46. Which type of leadership is popular in many technologically advanced countries?
Transformational
Job content factors
Participative
Global product division structure
47. As far as __________ are concerned - European firms are as centralized than American firms
Content and process
Control measures
Conglomerate
Host-country nationals
48. These MNCs do all of their training at their headquarters.
Micro
Ethnocentric
Participative
Specialized operations
49. 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.
Idealized influence - inspirational motivation - intellectual stimulation and individualized consideration
Job content factors
Content-oriented
Theory Y
50. Social needs are...
Global product division structure
the need for power and status
Control measures
Job content factors