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