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International Management

Subject : business-skills
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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Expatriate salaries typically are set according to the base pay of...






2. Training programs are useful in preparing people for overseas assignments for many reasons. These reasons can be put into two general categories which are...






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.






4. A key success factor is a factor that is necessary for a firm to compete effectively in a...






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






6. Price controls - financing restrictions - export commitments - taxes and local-sourcing requirements are examples of...






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






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






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






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






11. The external control process differs from the internal control in that the external control...






12. This strategy is appropriate when the need for national responsiveness is low and the need for globalization integration is high.






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






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






15. 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...






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






17. MNCs may use ____________ to evaluate political risk






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






19. This is an agreement in which two or more partners own and control an overseas business.






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






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






22. In a ____ investment - the goods or services produced are NOT similar to those produced at home.






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






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






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






26. Which of the following MNCs places local nationals in key positions and allows these managers to appoint and develop their own people?






27. MNCs utilize Export maximums for generating...






28. A global functional division structure is used primarily by...






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






30. 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?






31. The two-factor theory of motivation holds that two sets of factors influence job satisfaction. These are...






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






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






34. Positive organizational scholarship does not include...






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






36. These agreements typically require payment of a fee upfront and then a percentage of the revenues.






37. Not a quality needed to be a servant leader






38. 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.






39. When market liberalization is delayed...






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...






41. Social needs are...






42. 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






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






44. 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






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






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






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






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






49. 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.






50. 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...