Test your basic knowledge |

International Management

Subject : business-skills
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
  • If you are not ready to take this test, you can study here.
  • Match each statement with the correct term.
  • Don't refresh. All questions and answers are randomly picked and ordered every time you load a test.

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






2. When market liberalization is delayed...






3. 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?






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






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






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






7. Social needs are...






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






9. 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.






10. Positive organizational scholarship does not include...






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






12. 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...






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






22. An individual from a host-country or a third-country national who is assigned to work in the home country is a...






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






24. MNCs utilize Export maximums for generating...






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






26. 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






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






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






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






30. 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.






31. 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...






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






33. MNCs may use ____________ to evaluate political risk






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






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






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






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






38. 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






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






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






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






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






43. 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.






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






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.






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






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






48. Not a quality needed to be a servant leader






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






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