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International Management
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1. ________ are designed to tap specialized expertise or other resources in the company's worldwide subsidiaries.
Specialized operations
Inpatriate
Ethnocentric
corporate objectives
2. Which type of leadership is popular in many technologically advanced countries?
Participative
Political imperative
Conglomerate
Market niche
3. 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...
Social conditions
foreign currency
Theory Z
Hygiene - motivators
4. Controls that use reports and other written forms of communication to control operations are...
Theory Y
Indirect
ISO 9000
Market niche
5. ______ risk issues often take forms such as industry regulation - taxes on specific types of business activity and various restrictive local laws.
Micro
Training and previous experience
Global area division structure
Macro
6. The top-ranking goal for professional technical personnel from various countries is...
Repatriation
Training
Joint venture
Continuous improvement
7. Typically - MNCs utilizing this approach to strategic planning use a country-centered or multi-domestic strategy.
Political imperative
Codetermination
Lump-sum method
Participative
8. A key success factor is a factor that is necessary for a firm to compete effectively in a...
Global area division structure
International division structure
Market niche
Financial incentives
9. In a ____ investment - the goods or services produced are NOT similar to those produced at home.
Centralization
Conglomerate
Codetermination
Content-oriented
10. In work motivation - factors internally controlled - such as responsibility - achievement and the work itself are referred to as...
Heterogeneous product lines
Global area division structure
Job content factors
Content and process
11. MNCs may use ____________ to evaluate political risk
Regional instabilities
ISO 9000
Theory Y
A hygiene factor
12. 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
Global area division structure
Encourages harmony - responsiveness and sensibility
Organizational and personal
13. 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.
Goal-setting theory
Paternalistic
Transformational
Training and previous experience
14. The output control in which profit responsibility is shared with product and geographic units is characteristic of a...
Matrix structure
A hygiene factor
It gives first movers a significant advantage over later entrants
Market niche
15. Over the past decade political risk has become...
A vital area for MNCs to assess and manage
Paternalistic
Expropriation
the need for power and status
16. Which of the following leaders takes action or intervenes in situations only when standards are NOT met?
Universal
Passive management-by-exception leader
Inpatriate
the need for power and status
17. The adjustment model of the selection procedure for international assignments would include...
Idealized influence - inspirational motivation - intellectual stimulation and individualized consideration
Inpatriate
Training and previous experience
Ralative bargaining power
18. When market liberalization is delayed...
Social conditions
Micro
It gives first movers a significant advantage over later entrants
Financial incentives
19. Kaizen is a Japanese term that means...
Goal-setting theory
Extractive companies
Continuous improvement
Specialized operations
20. 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.
Inpatriate
Paternalistic
Environmental scanning
Passive management-by-exception leader
21. As far as __________ are concerned - European firms are as centralized than American firms
Transnational network structure
Training
Control measures
foreign currency
22. MNCs utilize Export maximums for generating...
foreign currency
Idealized influence - inspirational motivation - intellectual stimulation and individualized consideration
Participative
Global product division structure
23. Positive organizational scholarship does not include...
Followers
Polycentric
Goal-setting theory
Inpatriate
24. The process of providing goods and services in accord with a plan of action is...
Environmental scanning
Specialized operations
Strategy implementation
Matrix structure
25. Salary under Herzberg's theory is...
The home country
Theory Y
A hygiene factor
Universal
26. 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
Expropriation
Participative
Organizational and personal
27. 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
Encourages harmony - responsiveness and sensibility
Inpatriate
Micro
Environmental scanning
28. Expatriate salaries typically are set according to the base pay of...
Control measures
Regional instabilities
Followers
The home country
29. This is an agreement in which two or more partners own and control an overseas business.
Joint venture
Content and process
Repatriation
Extractive companies
30. _____ are local managers who are hired by the MNC.
Expropriation
Polycentric
Host-country nationals
Extractive companies
31. A structural arrangement that handles all international operations out of a division created for this purpose is referred to as a...
foreign currency
Job content factors
A vital area for MNCs to assess and manage
International division structure
32. This strategy is appropriate when the need for national responsiveness is low and the need for globalization integration is high.
Political imperative
International
Global
Entrepreneurship
33. The theory behind_____ is quite simple. The MNC works to maintain a stronger bargaining power position than that of the host country.
Political imperative
ISO 9000
Franchise
Ralative bargaining power
34. A legal system that requires workers and their managers to discuss major decisions is referred to as....
foreign currency
Global
Global area division structure
Codetermination
35. 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.
Specialization
ISO 9000
Market niche
Not extremely popular among MNCs
36. The two-factor theory of motivation holds that two sets of factors influence job satisfaction. These are...
Goal-setting theory
Content and process
Hygiene - motivators
Political imperative
37. The return to one's home country from an overseas management assignment is referred to as...
Repatriation
The home country
Followers
Regional instabilities
38. 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.
Theory Y
Content-oriented
Micro
Specialization
39. A structural arrangement in which domestic divisions are given worldwide responsibility for product groups is referred to as a...
Global product division structure
Training and previous experience
Theory Y
Strategy implementation
40. Which of the following MNCs places local nationals in key positions and allows these managers to appoint and develop their own people?
Hygiene - motivators
Centralization
Polycentric
International
41. A global functional division structure is used primarily by...
Idealized influence - inspirational motivation - intellectual stimulation and individualized consideration
Participative
Strategy implementation
Extractive companies
42. The objectives of the foreign operation and the ___________ are similar
corporate objectives
foreign currency
Host-country nationals
Training
43. _______ investments involve the production of goods or services that are the same as those produced at home.
corporate objectives
Global
Global product division structure
Horizontal
44. Although a number of approaches to decision-making are used around the world - the overall trend currently is toward...
Participative
Centralization
Paternalistic
Financial incentives
45. The first assumption about the motivation process is that it is...
Universal
Encourages harmony - responsiveness and sensibility
Continuous improvement
Job content factors
46. 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...
Followers
Goal-setting theory
Heterogeneous product lines
the need for power and status
47. The seizure of businesses by a host country with little - if any - compensation to the owners is referred to as...
A vital area for MNCs to assess and manage
Participative
Expropriation
It gives first movers a significant advantage over later entrants
48. The external control process differs from the internal control in that the external control...
Joint venture
Encourages harmony - responsiveness and sensibility
Participative
Idealized influence - inspirational motivation - intellectual stimulation and individualized consideration
49. 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?
Codetermination
Joint venture
Entrepreneurship
International
50. Price controls - financing restrictions - export commitments - taxes and local-sourcing requirements are examples of...
Operational risks
International
Participative
Content and process