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