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