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International Management

Subject : business-skills
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1. William Ouchi's theory of leadership - which combines Japanese and U.S. assumptions and approaches to leader behavior is referred to as...






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






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






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






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






6. 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






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






8. The process of providing goods and services in accord with a plan of action is...






9. In general - some evidence suggests that testing is...






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






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






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






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






14. 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






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






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






17. When market liberalization is delayed...






18. MNCs may use ____________ to evaluate political risk






19. The first assumption about the motivation process is that it is...






20. 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...






21. 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.






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






23. 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.






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






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






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






27. A key success factor is a factor that is necessary for a firm to compete effectively in a...






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






29. 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...






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






31. As far as __________ are concerned - European firms are as centralized than American firms






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






33. The external control process differs from the internal control in that the external control...






34. MNCs utilize Export maximums for generating...






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






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






37. A legal system that requires workers and their managers to discuss major decisions is referred to as....






38. Salary under Herzberg's theory is...






39. Not a quality needed to be a servant leader






40. 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?






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






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






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






44. Which of the following leaders takes action or intervenes in situations only when standards are NOT met?






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






46. 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...






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






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






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






50. _______ investments involve the production of goods or services that are the same as those produced at home.