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International Management

Subject : business-skills
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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. These agreements typically require payment of a fee upfront and then a percentage of the revenues.






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






3. Social needs are...






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






16. _______ investments involve the production of goods or services that are the same as those produced at home.






17. When market liberalization is delayed...






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






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






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






22. MNCs utilize Export maximums for generating...






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






24. Expatriate salaries typically are set according to the base pay of...






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






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






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






28. 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...






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






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






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






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






33. 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.






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






35. An organizational strategy and the accompanying techniques that result in the delivery of high-quality products or services to customers is referred to as...






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






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






38. 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.






39. MNCs may use ____________ to evaluate political risk






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






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






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






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






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...






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






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...






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






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






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.






50. 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