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