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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. The external control process differs from the internal control in that the external control...
Expropriation
Political imperative
Encourages harmony - responsiveness and sensibility
Total quality management
2. Social needs are...
Horizontal
the need for power and status
Hygiene - motivators
Followers
3. Not a quality needed to be a servant leader
Entrepreneurship
Codetermination
International division structure
Social conditions
4. Kaizen is a Japanese term that means...
Micro
Conglomerate
Continuous improvement
the need for power and status
5. A structural arrangement in which domestic divisions are given worldwide responsibility for product groups is referred to as a...
Followers
Ralative bargaining power
Global product division structure
Specialization
6. As a general statement - most evidence indicates that European managers tend to use this approach to leadership.
Conglomerate
Participative
Ethnocentric
Paternalistic
7. The two-factor theory of motivation holds that two sets of factors influence job satisfaction. These are...
Joint venture
Social conditions
Regional instabilities
Hygiene - motivators
8. Work-motivation theories can be broken down into two general categories which are...
Regional instabilities
Not extremely popular among MNCs
A hygiene factor
Content and process
9. A legal system that requires workers and their managers to discuss major decisions is referred to as....
Macro
foreign currency
Heterogeneous product lines
Codetermination
10. Although a number of approaches to decision-making are used around the world - the overall trend currently is toward...
Job content factors
Environmental scanning
Idealized influence - inspirational motivation - intellectual stimulation and individualized consideration
Centralization
11. 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.
Ethnocentric
Paternalistic
Franchise
the need for power and status
12. _______ investments involve the production of goods or services that are the same as those produced at home.
Repatriation
Theory Z
Horizontal
It gives first movers a significant advantage over later entrants
13. Positive organizational scholarship does not include...
the need for power and status
Global area division structure
Matrix structure
Followers
14. 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.
Entrepreneurship
Joint venture
corporate objectives
Content-oriented
15. 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...
Passive management-by-exception leader
Content and process
Theory Z
Goal-setting theory
16. A structure under which global operations are organized on a geographic rather than a product basis is referred to as a...
Content and process
Expropriation
Operational risks
Global area division structure
17. These agreements typically require payment of a fee upfront and then a percentage of the revenues.
Theory Z
Extractive companies
Expropriation
Franchise
18. These MNCs do all of their training at their headquarters.
The home country
Ethnocentric
Operational risks
Participative
19. _____ are local managers who are hired by the MNC.
Host-country nationals
Ralative bargaining power
Transnational network structure
Job content factors
20. The adjustment model of the selection procedure for international assignments would include...
Passive management-by-exception leader
Horizontal
Training and previous experience
Idealized influence - inspirational motivation - intellectual stimulation and individualized consideration
21. This strategy is appropriate when the need for national responsiveness is low and the need for globalization integration is high.
Passive management-by-exception leader
Operational risks
Global
Ralative bargaining power
22. Which type of leadership is popular in many technologically advanced countries?
Participative
The home country
Regional instabilities
Ethnocentric
23. In a ____ investment - the goods or services produced are NOT similar to those produced at home.
The home country
foreign currency
Conglomerate
A vital area for MNCs to assess and manage
24. 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...
Universal
Transformational
Goal-setting theory
Transnational network structure
25. A key success factor is a factor that is necessary for a firm to compete effectively in a...
Market niche
Expropriation
Global product division structure
Specialized operations
26. The objectives of the foreign operation and the ___________ are similar
corporate objectives
Theory Z
Global product division structure
Regional instabilities
27. An organizational strategy and the accompanying techniques that result in the delivery of high-quality products or services to customers is referred to as...
Universal
Participative
Transformational
Total quality management
28. An individual from a host-country or a third-country national who is assigned to work in the home country is a...
Idealized influence - inspirational motivation - intellectual stimulation and individualized consideration
Ethnocentric
corporate objectives
Inpatriate
29. William Ouchi's theory of leadership - which combines Japanese and U.S. assumptions and approaches to leader behavior is referred to as...
The home country
corporate objectives
Theory Z
Training and previous experience
30. 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
Paternalistic
Hygiene - motivators
Environmental scanning
31. As an organizational characteristic - _____ is the assigning of individuals to specific - well-defined tasks.
Specialization
Financial incentives
International division structure
Total quality management
32. 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...
Participative
Repatriation
Lump-sum method
Indirect
33. The return to one's home country from an overseas management assignment is referred to as...
Financial incentives
Ethnocentric
Lump-sum method
Repatriation
34. 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.
Theory Y
Content and process
Ethnocentric
Universal
35. ______ risk issues often take forms such as industry regulation - taxes on specific types of business activity and various restrictive local laws.
corporate objectives
Global
Micro
Horizontal
36. MNCs may use ____________ to evaluate political risk
Specialization
Extractive companies
Regional instabilities
Ralative bargaining power
37. 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.
Conglomerate
ISO 9000
Host-country nationals
Polycentric
38. Over the past decade political risk has become...
Continuous improvement
A vital area for MNCs to assess and manage
Universal
Micro
39. The top-ranking goal for professional technical personnel from various countries is...
Ralative bargaining power
Training
Paternalistic
Lump-sum method
40. 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
Idealized influence - inspirational motivation - intellectual stimulation and individualized consideration
Specialization
Paternalistic
Macro
41. _____________ do not encourage the use of centralized decision-making
Strategy implementation
ISO 9000
Specialization
Heterogeneous product lines
42. Training programs are useful in preparing people for overseas assignments for many reasons. These reasons can be put into two general categories which are...
Entrepreneurship
Environmental scanning
It gives first movers a significant advantage over later entrants
Organizational and personal
43. Controls that use reports and other written forms of communication to control operations are...
Global area division structure
Indirect
Followers
Specialized operations
44. A structural arrangement that handles all international operations out of a division created for this purpose is referred to as a...
International division structure
Encourages harmony - responsiveness and sensibility
Universal
A hygiene factor
45. The seizure of businesses by a host country with little - if any - compensation to the owners is referred to as...
Political imperative
Transformational
Expropriation
Hygiene - motivators
46. 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.
Participative
Transformational
Lump-sum method
Continuous improvement
47. As far as __________ are concerned - European firms are as centralized than American firms
Extractive companies
Control measures
Training
Training and previous experience
48. Salary under Herzberg's theory is...
Job content factors
Organizational and personal
Training and previous experience
A hygiene factor
49. The first assumption about the motivation process is that it is...
It gives first movers a significant advantage over later entrants
Universal
Micro
The home country
50. The theory behind_____ is quite simple. The MNC works to maintain a stronger bargaining power position than that of the host country.
Heterogeneous product lines
Specialization
Universal
Ralative bargaining power