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International Management

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1. An individual from a host-country or a third-country national who is assigned to work in the home country is a...






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






3. 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






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






5. Not a quality needed to be a servant leader






6. A global functional division structure is used primarily by...






7. As a general statement - most evidence indicates that European managers tend to use this approach to leadership.






8. Typically - MNCs utilizing this approach to strategic planning use a country-centered or multi-domestic strategy.






9. MNCs may use ____________ to evaluate political risk






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






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






12. The two-factor theory of motivation holds that two sets of factors influence job satisfaction. These are...






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






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






15. The top-ranking goal for professional technical personnel from various countries is...






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






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






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






19. 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?






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






21. 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...






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






23. 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






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






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






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






27. Which type of leadership is popular in many technologically advanced countries?






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






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






30. 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.






31. A structure under which global operations are organized on a geographic rather than a product basis is referred to as a...






32. An organizational strategy and the accompanying techniques that result in the delivery of high-quality products or services to customers is referred to as...






33. According to Bass - the most effective leaders were characterized by four interrelated factors. These are...






34. This is an agreement in which two or more partners own and control an overseas business.






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






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






37. When market liberalization is delayed...






38. _____________ do not encourage the use of centralized decision-making






39. MNCs utilize Export maximums for generating...






40. 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.






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






42. 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.






43. Social needs are...






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






45. 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...






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






47. 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...






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






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






50. 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.







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