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International Management

Subject : business-skills
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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Positive organizational scholarship does not include...






2. 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...






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






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






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






6. 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.






7. MNCs may use ____________ to evaluate political risk






8. 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.






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






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






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






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






13. In work motivation - factors internally controlled - such as responsibility - achievement and the work itself are referred to as...






14. Social needs are...






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






16. As an organizational characteristic - _____ is the assigning of individuals to specific - well-defined tasks.






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






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






19. 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






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






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






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






23. 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...






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






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






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






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






28. 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...






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






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






31. 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.






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






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






34. When market liberalization is delayed...






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






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






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






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






39. 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.






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






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






42. 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.






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






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






45. MNCs utilize Export maximums for generating...






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






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






48. This strategy is appropriate when the need for national responsiveness is low and the need for globalization integration is high.






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






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