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