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International Management

Subject : business-skills
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1. Which type of leadership is popular in many technologically advanced countries?






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






9. MNCs may use ____________ to evaluate political risk






10. 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...






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






12. Social needs are...






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






14. When market liberalization is delayed...






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






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






17. 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.






18. 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.






19. 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...






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






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






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






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






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.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






32. 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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






40. 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.






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






42. MNCs utilize Export maximums for generating...






43. Price controls - financing restrictions - export commitments - taxes and local-sourcing requirements are examples of...






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






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






46. 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...






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






48. 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.






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






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