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International Management

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






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






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






4. MNCs utilize Export maximums for generating...






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






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






7. Positive organizational scholarship does not include...






8. Not a quality needed to be a servant leader






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






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






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






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






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






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






15. 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...






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






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






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






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






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






21. 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...






22. _______ investments involve the production of goods or services that are the same as those produced at home.






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






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






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






26. 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.






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






28. 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






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






30. In general - some evidence suggests that testing is...






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






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






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






34. Kaizen is a Japanese term that means...






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






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






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






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.






39. 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






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






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






42. When market liberalization is delayed...






43. 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...






44. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






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







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