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International Management
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. As a general statement - most evidence indicates that European managers tend to use this approach to leadership.
Entrepreneurship
The home country
Participative
Content and process
2. The objectives of the foreign operation and the ___________ are similar
Participative
Theory Y
corporate objectives
Specialized operations
3. A global functional division structure is used primarily by...
Extractive companies
Franchise
the need for power and status
Conglomerate
4. A legal system that requires workers and their managers to discuss major decisions is referred to as....
Centralization
Codetermination
corporate objectives
It gives first movers a significant advantage over later entrants
5. A key success factor is a factor that is necessary for a firm to compete effectively in a...
Market niche
Not extremely popular among MNCs
Transformational
Heterogeneous product lines
6. 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.
Micro
Macro
Organizational and personal
Transformational
7. ______ risk issues often take forms such as industry regulation - taxes on specific types of business activity and various restrictive local laws.
Conglomerate
Matrix structure
A hygiene factor
Micro
8. Work-motivation theories can be broken down into two general categories which are...
ISO 9000
International division structure
Content and process
Content-oriented
9. Positive organizational scholarship does not include...
Transnational network structure
Followers
A hygiene factor
Training
10. A structural arrangement in which domestic divisions are given worldwide responsibility for product groups is referred to as a...
Transnational network structure
Extractive companies
Transformational
Global product division structure
11. The theory behind_____ is quite simple. The MNC works to maintain a stronger bargaining power position than that of the host country.
Theory Y
Ralative bargaining power
A hygiene factor
Strategy implementation
12. The external control process differs from the internal control in that the external control...
Participative
Expropriation
Transnational network structure
Encourages harmony - responsiveness and sensibility
13. 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
Franchise
Entrepreneurship
Macro
Social conditions
14. According to Bass - the most effective leaders were characterized by four interrelated factors. These are...
Joint venture
Content and process
Continuous improvement
Idealized influence - inspirational motivation - intellectual stimulation and individualized consideration
15. 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...
Expropriation
Transnational network structure
Inpatriate
Hygiene - motivators
16. Which type of leadership is popular in many technologically advanced countries?
Transnational network structure
Participative
Theory Z
Indirect
17. Price controls - financing restrictions - export commitments - taxes and local-sourcing requirements are examples of...
Macro
Ethnocentric
Operational risks
corporate objectives
18. When market liberalization is delayed...
Continuous improvement
Regional instabilities
Paternalistic
It gives first movers a significant advantage over later entrants
19. These MNCs do all of their training at their headquarters.
Operational risks
Universal
Ethnocentric
Conglomerate
20. Typically - MNCs utilizing this approach to strategic planning use a country-centered or multi-domestic strategy.
Political imperative
Financial incentives
Micro
Inpatriate
21. MNCs utilize Export maximums for generating...
Continuous improvement
Followers
Ralative bargaining power
foreign currency
22. Expatriate salaries typically are set according to the base pay of...
The home country
Control measures
Goal-setting theory
Transnational network structure
23. 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
Environmental scanning
Content-oriented
Micro
Encourages harmony - responsiveness and sensibility
24. 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
Ethnocentric
Macro
A vital area for MNCs to assess and manage
25. Controls that use reports and other written forms of communication to control operations are...
Indirect
Ralative bargaining power
Micro
A vital area for MNCs to assess and manage
26. Over the past decade political risk has become...
Strategy implementation
A vital area for MNCs to assess and manage
Specialization
Passive management-by-exception leader
27. 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.
Universal
Theory Y
A hygiene factor
Goal-setting theory
28. This strategy is appropriate when the need for national responsiveness is low and the need for globalization integration is high.
Global
A vital area for MNCs to assess and manage
Goal-setting theory
Participative
29. 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.
A hygiene factor
Paternalistic
Heterogeneous product lines
ISO 9000
30. The seizure of businesses by a host country with little - if any - compensation to the owners is referred to as...
Organizational and personal
Expropriation
Codetermination
ISO 9000
31. The output control in which profit responsibility is shared with product and geographic units is characteristic of a...
Theory Z
Market niche
Matrix structure
Micro
32. 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
Host-country nationals
Conglomerate
Job content factors
33. As far as __________ are concerned - European firms are as centralized than American firms
Control measures
Micro
Lump-sum method
Participative
34. Which of the following leaders takes action or intervenes in situations only when standards are NOT met?
Global product division structure
Passive management-by-exception leader
Not extremely popular among MNCs
Idealized influence - inspirational motivation - intellectual stimulation and individualized consideration
35. _____________ do not encourage the use of centralized decision-making
Paternalistic
Joint venture
Heterogeneous product lines
Encourages harmony - responsiveness and sensibility
36. The return to one's home country from an overseas management assignment is referred to as...
Strategy implementation
Political imperative
Social conditions
Repatriation
37. Although a number of approaches to decision-making are used around the world - the overall trend currently is toward...
Job content factors
Matrix structure
Centralization
Continuous improvement
38. A structural arrangement that handles all international operations out of a division created for this purpose is referred to as a...
Global product division structure
Specialization
ISO 9000
International division structure
39. This is an agreement in which two or more partners own and control an overseas business.
Followers
Joint venture
corporate objectives
Social conditions
40. 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...
Expropriation
Lump-sum method
Control measures
Horizontal
41. 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
The home country
International
Indirect
42. Not a quality needed to be a servant leader
Entrepreneurship
Joint venture
corporate objectives
Hygiene - motivators
43. Which of the following MNCs places local nationals in key positions and allows these managers to appoint and develop their own people?
Polycentric
A vital area for MNCs to assess and manage
Social conditions
Franchise
44. The first assumption about the motivation process is that it is...
Universal
Idealized influence - inspirational motivation - intellectual stimulation and individualized consideration
Total quality management
foreign currency
45. The top-ranking goal for professional technical personnel from various countries is...
Codetermination
Transformational
Training
Paternalistic
46. MNCs may use ____________ to evaluate political risk
Regional instabilities
Control measures
Environmental scanning
Financial incentives
47. 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.
Content-oriented
Encourages harmony - responsiveness and sensibility
Regional instabilities
Horizontal
48. Social needs are...
Content-oriented
Content and process
the need for power and status
Inpatriate
49. In work motivation - factors internally controlled - such as responsibility - achievement and the work itself are referred to as...
Content and process
Job content factors
Ralative bargaining power
A hygiene factor
50. William Ouchi's theory of leadership - which combines Japanese and U.S. assumptions and approaches to leader behavior is referred to as...
A hygiene factor
Extractive companies
Theory Z
Participative