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International Management

Subject : business-skills
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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. The top-ranking goal for professional technical personnel from various countries is...






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






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






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






5. 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...






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






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






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






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






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






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






12. Social needs are...






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






14. 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?






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






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






17. 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.






18. Not a quality needed to be a servant leader






19. MNCs utilize Export maximums for generating...






20. 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.






21. 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...






22. _____ are local managers who are hired by the MNC.






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






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






25. 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...






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






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






28. 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...






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






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






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






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






33. MNCs may use ____________ to evaluate political risk






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






41. The objectives of the foreign operation and the ___________ are similar






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






43. The external control process differs from the internal control in that the external control...






44. When market liberalization is delayed...






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






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






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






48. 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.






49. 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.






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