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International Management
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. The theory behind_____ is quite simple. The MNC works to maintain a stronger bargaining power position than that of the host country.
Job content factors
Total quality management
Ralative bargaining power
A hygiene factor
2. Expatriate salaries typically are set according to the base pay of...
Transformational
A vital area for MNCs to assess and manage
The home country
Paternalistic
3. William Ouchi's theory of leadership - which combines Japanese and U.S. assumptions and approaches to leader behavior is referred to as...
Training
Theory Z
Content-oriented
Global area division structure
4. 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.
Environmental scanning
Ethnocentric
Paternalistic
Strategy implementation
5. A legal system that requires workers and their managers to discuss major decisions is referred to as....
Franchise
Codetermination
Political imperative
The home country
6. The external control process differs from the internal control in that the external control...
Organizational and personal
Global product division structure
Encourages harmony - responsiveness and sensibility
Training and previous experience
7. 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
Social conditions
Regional instabilities
Environmental scanning
Followers
8. _____ are local managers who are hired by the MNC.
Environmental scanning
Host-country nationals
Centralization
Expropriation
9. Which of the following MNCs places local nationals in key positions and allows these managers to appoint and develop their own people?
It gives first movers a significant advantage over later entrants
International division structure
Social conditions
Polycentric
10. 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...
Horizontal
Encourages harmony - responsiveness and sensibility
Transnational network structure
Participative
11. Although a number of approaches to decision-making are used around the world - the overall trend currently is toward...
Transnational network structure
Entrepreneurship
Centralization
Theory Y
12. 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.
ISO 9000
foreign currency
Social conditions
Environmental scanning
13. _______ investments involve the production of goods or services that are the same as those produced at home.
Horizontal
Passive management-by-exception leader
Financial incentives
Hygiene - motivators
14. 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
Lump-sum method
Political imperative
Social conditions
Macro
15. The process of providing goods and services in accord with a plan of action is...
Content and process
corporate objectives
Centralization
Strategy implementation
16. The first assumption about the motivation process is that it is...
Passive management-by-exception leader
Polycentric
Centralization
Universal
17. An individual from a host-country or a third-country national who is assigned to work in the home country is a...
Conglomerate
Global
Inpatriate
corporate objectives
18. Salary under Herzberg's theory is...
Theory Z
A hygiene factor
Matrix structure
The home country
19. 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...
Ethnocentric
Codetermination
Lump-sum method
Theory Z
20. Not a quality needed to be a servant leader
It gives first movers a significant advantage over later entrants
Entrepreneurship
Inpatriate
Social conditions
21. 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.
Specialized operations
It gives first movers a significant advantage over later entrants
Transformational
Financial incentives
22. Controls that use reports and other written forms of communication to control operations are...
Centralization
corporate objectives
Indirect
Matrix structure
23. As far as __________ are concerned - European firms are as centralized than American firms
Environmental scanning
Control measures
Total quality management
International
24. Which of the following leaders takes action or intervenes in situations only when standards are NOT met?
Global
Passive management-by-exception leader
Entrepreneurship
A hygiene factor
25. 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...
Specialized operations
Social conditions
Content-oriented
Not extremely popular among MNCs
26. The top-ranking goal for professional technical personnel from various countries is...
Repatriation
Participative
Training
Global product division structure
27. MNCs may use ____________ to evaluate political risk
Content and process
Regional instabilities
Macro
Goal-setting theory
28. MNCs utilize Export maximums for generating...
Goal-setting theory
Participative
Global product division structure
foreign currency
29. The objectives of the foreign operation and the ___________ are similar
corporate objectives
Macro
Codetermination
Goal-setting theory
30. Price controls - financing restrictions - export commitments - taxes and local-sourcing requirements are examples of...
Operational risks
Strategy implementation
Control measures
Not extremely popular among MNCs
31. A structure under which global operations are organized on a geographic rather than a product basis is referred to as a...
Conglomerate
Global area division structure
Financial incentives
Training and previous experience
32. The output control in which profit responsibility is shared with product and geographic units is characteristic of a...
Matrix structure
International division structure
Transformational
Paternalistic
33. According to Bass - the most effective leaders were characterized by four interrelated factors. These are...
The home country
Extractive companies
Idealized influence - inspirational motivation - intellectual stimulation and individualized consideration
Followers
34. An organizational strategy and the accompanying techniques that result in the delivery of high-quality products or services to customers is referred to as...
Total quality management
A hygiene factor
Hygiene - motivators
corporate objectives
35. In general - some evidence suggests that testing is...
Ralative bargaining power
Not extremely popular among MNCs
Political imperative
Universal
36. This strategy is appropriate when the need for national responsiveness is low and the need for globalization integration is high.
Regional instabilities
Global
Content and process
Theory Y
37. When market liberalization is delayed...
Paternalistic
Financial incentives
It gives first movers a significant advantage over later entrants
Ralative bargaining power
38. These agreements typically require payment of a fee upfront and then a percentage of the revenues.
Franchise
Total quality management
Content-oriented
Theory Y
39. In a ____ investment - the goods or services produced are NOT similar to those produced at home.
Lump-sum method
Conglomerate
Franchise
Environmental scanning
40. Over the past decade political risk has become...
Hygiene - motivators
Regional instabilities
A vital area for MNCs to assess and manage
Followers
41. Work-motivation theories can be broken down into two general categories which are...
Heterogeneous product lines
Encourages harmony - responsiveness and sensibility
Content and process
Entrepreneurship
42. Typically - MNCs utilizing this approach to strategic planning use a country-centered or multi-domestic strategy.
Political imperative
Theory Y
Polycentric
Entrepreneurship
43. Training programs are useful in preparing people for overseas assignments for many reasons. These reasons can be put into two general categories which are...
Content and process
Content-oriented
Global product division structure
Organizational and personal
44. In work motivation - factors internally controlled - such as responsibility - achievement and the work itself are referred to as...
Job content factors
Horizontal
Regional instabilities
Participative
45. A structural arrangement in which domestic divisions are given worldwide responsibility for product groups is referred to as a...
Repatriation
Financial incentives
Passive management-by-exception leader
Global product division structure
46. A global functional division structure is used primarily by...
Goal-setting theory
Matrix structure
Extractive companies
Horizontal
47. _____________ do not encourage the use of centralized decision-making
Heterogeneous product lines
It gives first movers a significant advantage over later entrants
Financial incentives
Idealized influence - inspirational motivation - intellectual stimulation and individualized consideration
48. Positive organizational scholarship does not include...
Followers
A vital area for MNCs to assess and manage
Matrix structure
Inpatriate
49. To motivate employees - especially in foreign countries with high individualism companies tend to offer...
Financial incentives
Job content factors
International
Not extremely popular among MNCs
50. 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?
Expropriation
Horizontal
International
Regional instabilities