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International Management
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. Expatriate salaries typically are set according to the base pay of...
Transformational
Lump-sum method
corporate objectives
The home country
2. The process of providing goods and services in accord with a plan of action is...
Strategy implementation
Encourages harmony - responsiveness and sensibility
Transnational network structure
Goal-setting theory
3. Although a number of approaches to decision-making are used around the world - the overall trend currently is toward...
Centralization
Entrepreneurship
Expropriation
Specialization
4. Controls that use reports and other written forms of communication to control operations are...
Macro
Heterogeneous product lines
International division structure
Indirect
5. To motivate employees - especially in foreign countries with high individualism companies tend to offer...
Financial incentives
Matrix structure
Environmental scanning
Content and process
6. William Ouchi's theory of leadership - which combines Japanese and U.S. assumptions and approaches to leader behavior is referred to as...
Theory Z
Market niche
corporate objectives
Idealized influence - inspirational motivation - intellectual stimulation and individualized consideration
7. The first assumption about the motivation process is that it is...
Universal
Content-oriented
Encourages harmony - responsiveness and sensibility
Theory Y
8. Social needs are...
Joint venture
the need for power and status
Global
Host-country nationals
9. Kaizen is a Japanese term that means...
corporate objectives
Expropriation
Continuous improvement
Entrepreneurship
10. The top-ranking goal for professional technical personnel from various countries is...
Heterogeneous product lines
Encourages harmony - responsiveness and sensibility
Training
Regional instabilities
11. 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...
Lump-sum method
Content-oriented
the need for power and status
Participative
12. _____ are local managers who are hired by the MNC.
Host-country nationals
corporate objectives
International division structure
Political imperative
13. Work-motivation theories can be broken down into two general categories which are...
International division structure
Content and process
Environmental scanning
A hygiene factor
14. These agreements typically require payment of a fee upfront and then a percentage of the revenues.
Participative
Job content factors
Franchise
Lump-sum method
15. Over the past decade political risk has become...
Inpatriate
Host-country nationals
Micro
A vital area for MNCs to assess and manage
16. MNCs utilize Export maximums for generating...
Encourages harmony - responsiveness and sensibility
Hygiene - motivators
foreign currency
Ethnocentric
17. A legal system that requires workers and their managers to discuss major decisions is referred to as....
Joint venture
Horizontal
Social conditions
Codetermination
18. 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
A hygiene factor
Environmental scanning
Theory Z
Polycentric
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.
Content-oriented
Participative
Global area division structure
Universal
20. 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...
Job content factors
Hygiene - motivators
Goal-setting theory
Specialization
21. Which of the following leaders takes action or intervenes in situations only when standards are NOT met?
Hygiene - motivators
Content-oriented
Passive management-by-exception leader
Environmental scanning
22. According to Bass - the most effective leaders were characterized by four interrelated factors. These are...
Participative
Idealized influence - inspirational motivation - intellectual stimulation and individualized consideration
Goal-setting theory
Centralization
23. Not a quality needed to be a servant leader
Entrepreneurship
Participative
Market niche
Idealized influence - inspirational motivation - intellectual stimulation and individualized consideration
24. The return to one's home country from an overseas management assignment is referred to as...
Repatriation
Job content factors
International
Global
25. _____________ do not encourage the use of centralized decision-making
Heterogeneous product lines
Entrepreneurship
Matrix structure
Codetermination
26. This is an agreement in which two or more partners own and control an overseas business.
Entrepreneurship
Paternalistic
Joint venture
Job content factors
27. ______ risk issues often take forms such as industry regulation - taxes on specific types of business activity and various restrictive local laws.
Global product division structure
Micro
Operational risks
Matrix structure
28. 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.
Training and previous experience
Paternalistic
Polycentric
Regional instabilities
29. Training programs are useful in preparing people for overseas assignments for many reasons. These reasons can be put into two general categories which are...
Financial incentives
Organizational and personal
Macro
Specialized operations
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.
Goal-setting theory
Transformational
Continuous improvement
corporate objectives
31. Typically - MNCs utilizing this approach to strategic planning use a country-centered or multi-domestic strategy.
Political imperative
Participative
Job content factors
Indirect
32. A structural arrangement in which domestic divisions are given worldwide responsibility for product groups is referred to as a...
Global product division structure
International division structure
Global area division structure
Organizational and personal
33. As far as __________ are concerned - European firms are as centralized than American firms
Idealized influence - inspirational motivation - intellectual stimulation and individualized consideration
Control measures
Theory Y
Social conditions
34. The objectives of the foreign operation and the ___________ are similar
Financial incentives
corporate objectives
Lump-sum method
Participative
35. Which of the following MNCs places local nationals in key positions and allows these managers to appoint and develop their own people?
Horizontal
Market niche
Polycentric
ISO 9000
36. A structural arrangement that handles all international operations out of a division created for this purpose is referred to as a...
Conglomerate
International division structure
Specialization
Training
37. This strategy is appropriate when the need for national responsiveness is low and the need for globalization integration is high.
Theory Z
Macro
Global
Matrix structure
38. 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.
International
Theory Y
Global product division structure
foreign currency
39. As a general statement - most evidence indicates that European managers tend to use this approach to leadership.
Theory Z
Participative
Heterogeneous product lines
Goal-setting theory
40. Positive organizational scholarship does not include...
Participative
Ralative bargaining power
Followers
Transnational network structure
41. In a ____ investment - the goods or services produced are NOT similar to those produced at home.
Conglomerate
Entrepreneurship
Ethnocentric
Lump-sum method
42. These MNCs do all of their training at their headquarters.
International
Theory Z
Ethnocentric
Participative
43. The output control in which profit responsibility is shared with product and geographic units is characteristic of a...
Environmental scanning
Content-oriented
Ralative bargaining power
Matrix structure
44. As an organizational characteristic - _____ is the assigning of individuals to specific - well-defined tasks.
Idealized influence - inspirational motivation - intellectual stimulation and individualized consideration
Joint venture
Specialization
Paternalistic
45. The adjustment model of the selection procedure for international assignments would include...
Political imperative
Conglomerate
Ethnocentric
Training and previous experience
46. A structure under which global operations are organized on a geographic rather than a product basis is referred to as a...
Global product division structure
Global area division structure
Specialization
The home country
47. 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.
Conglomerate
ISO 9000
Inpatriate
Market niche
48. The external control process differs from the internal control in that the external control...
Polycentric
Ralative bargaining power
Encourages harmony - responsiveness and sensibility
Environmental scanning
49. When market liberalization is delayed...
It gives first movers a significant advantage over later entrants
Franchise
Micro
Social conditions
50. Salary under Herzberg's theory is...
foreign currency
Regional instabilities
International
A hygiene factor