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International Management
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1. Kaizen is a Japanese term that means...
Continuous improvement
Indirect
Ralative bargaining power
Strategy implementation
2. 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.
Political imperative
Theory Y
It gives first movers a significant advantage over later entrants
A hygiene factor
3. In a ____ investment - the goods or services produced are NOT similar to those produced at home.
Horizontal
Not extremely popular among MNCs
Lump-sum method
Conglomerate
4. 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
Matrix structure
Environmental scanning
Joint venture
Franchise
5. The objectives of the foreign operation and the ___________ are similar
Global
foreign currency
A hygiene factor
corporate objectives
6. The top-ranking goal for professional technical personnel from various countries is...
foreign currency
Training
Idealized influence - inspirational motivation - intellectual stimulation and individualized consideration
Transformational
7. These MNCs do all of their training at their headquarters.
Hygiene - motivators
Joint venture
Ethnocentric
Paternalistic
8. The first assumption about the motivation process is that it is...
Encourages harmony - responsiveness and sensibility
Universal
A hygiene factor
Ethnocentric
9. The theory behind_____ is quite simple. The MNC works to maintain a stronger bargaining power position than that of the host country.
Indirect
Ralative bargaining power
Control measures
Total quality management
10. As an organizational characteristic - _____ is the assigning of individuals to specific - well-defined tasks.
International division structure
Specialization
Operational risks
Organizational and personal
11. Work-motivation theories can be broken down into two general categories which are...
Franchise
Content and process
Macro
International
12. When market liberalization is delayed...
Theory Y
Continuous improvement
It gives first movers a significant advantage over later entrants
Financial incentives
13. 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...
Social conditions
Total quality management
Job content factors
Inpatriate
14. MNCs may use ____________ to evaluate political risk
Conglomerate
Regional instabilities
Total quality management
International division structure
15. Which of the following leaders takes action or intervenes in situations only when standards are NOT met?
Repatriation
Passive management-by-exception leader
It gives first movers a significant advantage over later entrants
Training and previous experience
16. Salary under Herzberg's theory is...
Theory Z
It gives first movers a significant advantage over later entrants
Control measures
A hygiene factor
17. This is an agreement in which two or more partners own and control an overseas business.
Joint venture
Expropriation
Idealized influence - inspirational motivation - intellectual stimulation and individualized consideration
Transformational
18. A structural arrangement in which domestic divisions are given worldwide responsibility for product groups is referred to as a...
A vital area for MNCs to assess and manage
Content and process
Global product division structure
ISO 9000
19. The output control in which profit responsibility is shared with product and geographic units is characteristic of a...
Matrix structure
Theory Y
Transformational
foreign currency
20. The adjustment model of the selection procedure for international assignments would include...
Conglomerate
Paternalistic
Training and previous experience
Operational risks
21. These agreements typically require payment of a fee upfront and then a percentage of the revenues.
Not extremely popular among MNCs
Paternalistic
Encourages harmony - responsiveness and sensibility
Franchise
22. According to Bass - the most effective leaders were characterized by four interrelated factors. These are...
Conglomerate
Idealized influence - inspirational motivation - intellectual stimulation and individualized consideration
Inpatriate
Lump-sum method
23. Positive organizational scholarship does not include...
Indirect
Followers
Conglomerate
corporate objectives
24. In work motivation - factors internally controlled - such as responsibility - achievement and the work itself are referred to as...
Macro
Global product division structure
Job content factors
Theory Y
25. Training programs are useful in preparing people for overseas assignments for many reasons. These reasons can be put into two general categories which are...
Organizational and personal
Content and process
Participative
Hygiene - motivators
26. Which of the following MNCs places local nationals in key positions and allows these managers to appoint and develop their own people?
Ralative bargaining power
Control measures
Not extremely popular among MNCs
Polycentric
27. 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
Financial incentives
Ethnocentric
Universal
Macro
28. Price controls - financing restrictions - export commitments - taxes and local-sourcing requirements are examples of...
Hygiene - motivators
Organizational and personal
Operational risks
The home country
29. William Ouchi's theory of leadership - which combines Japanese and U.S. assumptions and approaches to leader behavior is referred to as...
Theory Z
Total quality management
Extractive companies
Political imperative
30. The seizure of businesses by a host country with little - if any - compensation to the owners is referred to as...
Expropriation
Universal
Transformational
Goal-setting theory
31. _____ are local managers who are hired by the MNC.
Micro
Organizational and personal
Host-country nationals
Ralative bargaining power
32. 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...
Transformational
Conglomerate
Lump-sum method
Franchise
33. Not a quality needed to be a servant leader
corporate objectives
Heterogeneous product lines
Entrepreneurship
Organizational and personal
34. _______ investments involve the production of goods or services that are the same as those produced at home.
Global area division structure
Financial incentives
Lump-sum method
Horizontal
35. 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.
Training and previous experience
Strategy implementation
Ralative bargaining power
ISO 9000
36. Controls that use reports and other written forms of communication to control operations are...
Specialization
The home country
Indirect
Training and previous experience
37. In general - some evidence suggests that testing is...
Encourages harmony - responsiveness and sensibility
Not extremely popular among MNCs
Transnational network structure
The home country
38. The two-factor theory of motivation holds that two sets of factors influence job satisfaction. These are...
Total quality management
Hygiene - motivators
Theory Y
Conglomerate
39. MNCs utilize Export maximums for generating...
foreign currency
the need for power and status
Passive management-by-exception leader
Transnational network structure
40. An individual from a host-country or a third-country national who is assigned to work in the home country is a...
Theory Y
corporate objectives
Inpatriate
International
41. The process of providing goods and services in accord with a plan of action is...
Strategy implementation
Idealized influence - inspirational motivation - intellectual stimulation and individualized consideration
Environmental scanning
Ethnocentric
42. A global functional division structure is used primarily by...
Extractive companies
International
Host-country nationals
Global
43. 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?
International
Organizational and personal
ISO 9000
corporate objectives
44. Expatriate salaries typically are set according to the base pay of...
Idealized influence - inspirational motivation - intellectual stimulation and individualized consideration
Macro
Ralative bargaining power
The home country
45. 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.
Content and process
Transformational
Goal-setting theory
Horizontal
46. Although a number of approaches to decision-making are used around the world - the overall trend currently is toward...
Centralization
Indirect
Polycentric
Operational risks
47. ________ are designed to tap specialized expertise or other resources in the company's worldwide subsidiaries.
Repatriation
Theory Y
Training
Specialized operations
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...
The home country
Transnational network structure
Content and process
Centralization
49. 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.
Paternalistic
Ralative bargaining power
foreign currency
Social conditions
50. 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...
Idealized influence - inspirational motivation - intellectual stimulation and individualized consideration
Host-country nationals
Goal-setting theory
Job content factors
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