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International Management

Subject : business-skills
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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. An organizational strategy and the accompanying techniques that result in the delivery of high-quality products or services to customers is referred to as...






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






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






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






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






6. 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.






7. Not a quality needed to be a servant leader






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






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






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






11. When market liberalization is delayed...






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






13. 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...






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






15. 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...






16. 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.






17. 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






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






19. Although a number of approaches to decision-making are used around the world - the overall trend currently is toward...






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






28. 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.






29. MNCs may use ____________ to evaluate political risk






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. 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.






32. 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...






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






40. Social needs are...






41. Positive organizational scholarship does not include...






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






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






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






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






46. MNCs utilize Export maximums for generating...






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






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






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






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