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International Management

Subject : business-skills
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1. 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






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






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






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






5. 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






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






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






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






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






10. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






22. 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.






23. Social needs are...






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






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






26. When market liberalization is delayed...






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






28. 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...






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






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






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






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






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






34. MNCs may use ____________ to evaluate political risk






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






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






37. 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...






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






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






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






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






42. 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.






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






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






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






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. Not a quality needed to be a servant leader






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






49. 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.






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