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