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International Management
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Instructions:
Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. The process of providing goods and services in accord with a plan of action is...
Strategy implementation
Not extremely popular among MNCs
Specialized operations
corporate objectives
2. A legal system that requires workers and their managers to discuss major decisions is referred to as....
foreign currency
A hygiene factor
International
Codetermination
3. Typically - MNCs utilizing this approach to strategic planning use a country-centered or multi-domestic strategy.
Codetermination
Market niche
Political imperative
Transformational
4. In work motivation - factors internally controlled - such as responsibility - achievement and the work itself are referred to as...
Job content factors
Transnational network structure
Regional instabilities
Goal-setting theory
5. ________ are designed to tap specialized expertise or other resources in the company's worldwide subsidiaries.
Social conditions
Global area division structure
Specialized operations
Polycentric
6. When market liberalization is delayed...
It gives first movers a significant advantage over later entrants
Operational risks
foreign currency
Macro
7. As far as __________ are concerned - European firms are as centralized than American firms
Control measures
Hygiene - motivators
Theory Z
Joint venture
8. 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...
International division structure
Ralative bargaining power
Goal-setting theory
Conglomerate
9. A global functional division structure is used primarily by...
Financial incentives
Horizontal
Extractive companies
Participative
10. 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.
Inpatriate
Goal-setting theory
Financial incentives
Content-oriented
11. The return to one's home country from an overseas management assignment is referred to as...
Control measures
Repatriation
Operational risks
Transnational network structure
12. A structural arrangement that handles all international operations out of a division created for this purpose is referred to as a...
International division structure
Joint venture
Global area division structure
A hygiene factor
13. _____________ do not encourage the use of centralized decision-making
Participative
Macro
Heterogeneous product lines
Entrepreneurship
14. MNCs utilize Export maximums for generating...
foreign currency
Idealized influence - inspirational motivation - intellectual stimulation and individualized consideration
ISO 9000
Content and process
15. Positive organizational scholarship does not include...
Goal-setting theory
Inpatriate
Followers
A hygiene factor
16. To motivate employees - especially in foreign countries with high individualism companies tend to offer...
Financial incentives
ISO 9000
Horizontal
Ethnocentric
17. As a general statement - most evidence indicates that European managers tend to use this approach to leadership.
foreign currency
Participative
Heterogeneous product lines
Encourages harmony - responsiveness and sensibility
18. The theory behind_____ is quite simple. The MNC works to maintain a stronger bargaining power position than that of the host country.
Content and process
Passive management-by-exception leader
Entrepreneurship
Ralative bargaining power
19. These agreements typically require payment of a fee upfront and then a percentage of the revenues.
Polycentric
corporate objectives
Franchise
Specialization
20. An individual from a host-country or a third-country national who is assigned to work in the home country is a...
Inpatriate
Followers
Micro
Joint venture
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...
Social conditions
ISO 9000
Theory Y
Training and previous experience
22. Over the past decade political risk has become...
Indirect
Regional instabilities
foreign currency
A vital area for MNCs to assess and manage
23. _____ are local managers who are hired by the MNC.
Control measures
Content and process
Host-country nationals
Indirect
24. The external control process differs from the internal control in that the external control...
Encourages harmony - responsiveness and sensibility
Global product division structure
It gives first movers a significant advantage over later entrants
Strategy implementation
25. In a ____ investment - the goods or services produced are NOT similar to those produced at home.
Followers
Conglomerate
Market niche
Passive management-by-exception leader
26. The top-ranking goal for professional technical personnel from various countries is...
Expropriation
Transnational network structure
Training
Political imperative
27. The output control in which profit responsibility is shared with product and geographic units is characteristic of a...
ISO 9000
Horizontal
Matrix structure
A hygiene factor
28. The seizure of businesses by a host country with little - if any - compensation to the owners is referred to as...
Polycentric
Expropriation
Strategy implementation
Followers
29. 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.
Indirect
Theory Y
Inpatriate
Environmental scanning
30. This is an agreement in which two or more partners own and control an overseas business.
Inpatriate
Financial incentives
It gives first movers a significant advantage over later entrants
Joint venture
31. As an organizational characteristic - _____ is the assigning of individuals to specific - well-defined tasks.
It gives first movers a significant advantage over later entrants
Content and process
Specialization
International division structure
32. Work-motivation theories can be broken down into two general categories which are...
Content-oriented
Content and process
Financial incentives
Global area division structure
33. The objectives of the foreign operation and the ___________ are similar
Content and process
Inpatriate
Lump-sum method
corporate objectives
34. Which type of leadership is popular in many technologically advanced countries?
Passive management-by-exception leader
Operational risks
Participative
Universal
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...
Paternalistic
Followers
Organizational and personal
Financial incentives
36. Which of the following MNCs places local nationals in key positions and allows these managers to appoint and develop their own people?
Market niche
Franchise
Polycentric
Not extremely popular among MNCs
37. Although a number of approaches to decision-making are used around the world - the overall trend currently is toward...
Followers
Operational risks
the need for power and status
Centralization
38. William Ouchi's theory of leadership - which combines Japanese and U.S. assumptions and approaches to leader behavior is referred to as...
Theory Z
Micro
Goal-setting theory
Indirect
39. This strategy is appropriate when the need for national responsiveness is low and the need for globalization integration is high.
Global
Political imperative
corporate objectives
A hygiene factor
40. Controls that use reports and other written forms of communication to control operations are...
Specialization
Indirect
Polycentric
Training
41. 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
Conglomerate
Environmental scanning
Horizontal
Repatriation
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.
Paternalistic
Host-country nationals
Entrepreneurship
Heterogeneous product lines
43. In general - some evidence suggests that testing is...
Not extremely popular among MNCs
Macro
Theory Y
Participative
44. The first assumption about the motivation process is that it is...
Job content factors
Matrix structure
Micro
Universal
45. 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.
Transformational
Ethnocentric
Ralative bargaining power
Participative
46. The two-factor theory of motivation holds that two sets of factors influence job satisfaction. These are...
Indirect
Theory Y
Hygiene - motivators
Job content factors
47. 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...
Transnational network structure
Paternalistic
Heterogeneous product lines
Ethnocentric
48. 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
Theory Z
Global area division structure
Content and process
Macro
49. 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...
Global
Participative
Lump-sum method
Not extremely popular among MNCs
50. A structural arrangement in which domestic divisions are given worldwide responsibility for product groups is referred to as a...
Global product division structure
Matrix structure
Inpatriate
corporate objectives