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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. 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.
Conglomerate
Job content factors
Theory Y
Global product division structure
2. Controls that use reports and other written forms of communication to control operations are...
Control measures
Franchise
Indirect
Matrix structure
3. ______ risk issues often take forms such as industry regulation - taxes on specific types of business activity and various restrictive local laws.
Micro
Job content factors
Theory Z
Training and previous experience
4. A global functional division structure is used primarily by...
Joint venture
Micro
Extractive companies
foreign currency
5. Typically - MNCs utilizing this approach to strategic planning use a country-centered or multi-domestic strategy.
Matrix structure
Lump-sum method
Political imperative
corporate objectives
6. These MNCs do all of their training at their headquarters.
Ethnocentric
Political imperative
Inpatriate
Heterogeneous product lines
7. ________ are designed to tap specialized expertise or other resources in the company's worldwide subsidiaries.
Political imperative
the need for power and status
Indirect
Specialized operations
8. 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
Macro
Entrepreneurship
Theory Y
Not extremely popular among MNCs
9. Which of the following leaders takes action or intervenes in situations only when standards are NOT met?
Passive management-by-exception leader
Social conditions
The home country
Not extremely popular among MNCs
10. The process of providing goods and services in accord with a plan of action is...
Strategy implementation
Specialized operations
the need for power and status
Encourages harmony - responsiveness and sensibility
11. Work-motivation theories can be broken down into two general categories which are...
Passive management-by-exception leader
Content and process
Matrix structure
Joint venture
12. A structural arrangement in which domestic divisions are given worldwide responsibility for product groups is referred to as a...
Content-oriented
Global product division structure
Inpatriate
Goal-setting theory
13. 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.
Encourages harmony - responsiveness and sensibility
Indirect
Theory Y
Transformational
14. According to Bass - the most effective leaders were characterized by four interrelated factors. These are...
Universal
A hygiene factor
Theory Y
Idealized influence - inspirational motivation - intellectual stimulation and individualized consideration
15. A key success factor is a factor that is necessary for a firm to compete effectively in a...
Market niche
Transformational
Regional instabilities
Paternalistic
16. The output control in which profit responsibility is shared with product and geographic units is characteristic of a...
Matrix structure
It gives first movers a significant advantage over later entrants
Ethnocentric
Transformational
17. 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.
Micro
ISO 9000
Repatriation
Conglomerate
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
Idealized influence - inspirational motivation - intellectual stimulation and individualized consideration
Universal
Job content factors
Environmental scanning
19. 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...
Global area division structure
A hygiene factor
Goal-setting theory
Content-oriented
20. Which of the following MNCs places local nationals in key positions and allows these managers to appoint and develop their own people?
Lump-sum method
Horizontal
Polycentric
The home country
21. Social needs are...
Entrepreneurship
Specialized operations
the need for power and status
Codetermination
22. Over the past decade political risk has become...
A vital area for MNCs to assess and manage
Franchise
Market niche
Participative
23. As an organizational characteristic - _____ is the assigning of individuals to specific - well-defined tasks.
Theory Y
Matrix structure
Specialization
Indirect
24. Salary under Herzberg's theory is...
Heterogeneous product lines
A hygiene factor
Theory Y
Strategy implementation
25. The return to one's home country from an overseas management assignment is referred to as...
Training
Political imperative
Repatriation
Entrepreneurship
26. The objectives of the foreign operation and the ___________ are similar
Encourages harmony - responsiveness and sensibility
corporate objectives
ISO 9000
Theory Y
27. 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?
Specialized operations
Theory Z
International
Micro
28. The theory behind_____ is quite simple. The MNC works to maintain a stronger bargaining power position than that of the host country.
Idealized influence - inspirational motivation - intellectual stimulation and individualized consideration
Strategy implementation
Ralative bargaining power
the need for power and status
29. The adjustment model of the selection procedure for international assignments would include...
A hygiene factor
Operational risks
Repatriation
Training and previous experience
30. Not a quality needed to be a servant leader
Indirect
Passive management-by-exception leader
Environmental scanning
Entrepreneurship
31. William Ouchi's theory of leadership - which combines Japanese and U.S. assumptions and approaches to leader behavior is referred to as...
Ethnocentric
Micro
Market niche
Theory Z
32. A structure under which global operations are organized on a geographic rather than a product basis is referred to as a...
Encourages harmony - responsiveness and sensibility
Conglomerate
Global area division structure
Ethnocentric
33. An individual from a host-country or a third-country national who is assigned to work in the home country is a...
Environmental scanning
A vital area for MNCs to assess and manage
Global product division structure
Inpatriate
34. Price controls - financing restrictions - export commitments - taxes and local-sourcing requirements are examples of...
Codetermination
Continuous improvement
Operational risks
Polycentric
35. Training programs are useful in preparing people for overseas assignments for many reasons. These reasons can be put into two general categories which are...
Expropriation
the need for power and status
Organizational and personal
Conglomerate
36. An organizational strategy and the accompanying techniques that result in the delivery of high-quality products or services to customers is referred to as...
Polycentric
Transformational
Total quality management
International
37. The seizure of businesses by a host country with little - if any - compensation to the owners is referred to as...
Centralization
It gives first movers a significant advantage over later entrants
Franchise
Expropriation
38. 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...
Repatriation
Extractive companies
Host-country nationals
Social conditions
39. When market liberalization is delayed...
It gives first movers a significant advantage over later entrants
Strategy implementation
Ralative bargaining power
Followers
40. 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.
Paternalistic
Ralative bargaining power
Encourages harmony - responsiveness and sensibility
Market niche
41. The first assumption about the motivation process is that it is...
Global
A hygiene factor
Theory Y
Universal
42. These agreements typically require payment of a fee upfront and then a percentage of the revenues.
Macro
Host-country nationals
Franchise
Codetermination
43. In a ____ investment - the goods or services produced are NOT similar to those produced at home.
Content and process
Political imperative
Conglomerate
Followers
44. As a general statement - most evidence indicates that European managers tend to use this approach to leadership.
Participative
Host-country nationals
Codetermination
Encourages harmony - responsiveness and sensibility
45. The external control process differs from the internal control in that the external control...
Encourages harmony - responsiveness and sensibility
Centralization
Training
Theory Z
46. The top-ranking goal for professional technical personnel from various countries is...
Financial incentives
Training
Job content factors
Extractive companies
47. _______ investments involve the production of goods or services that are the same as those produced at home.
Horizontal
Joint venture
Transnational network structure
Content and process
48. _____________ do not encourage the use of centralized decision-making
Indirect
foreign currency
Heterogeneous product lines
Joint venture
49. A structural arrangement that handles all international operations out of a division created for this purpose is referred to as a...
A hygiene factor
Franchise
International division structure
Regional instabilities
50. _____ are local managers who are hired by the MNC.
foreign currency
Universal
Host-country nationals
Regional instabilities