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International Management
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1. MNCs may use ____________ to evaluate political risk
Ralative bargaining power
Regional instabilities
Heterogeneous product lines
Transnational network structure
2. An organizational strategy and the accompanying techniques that result in the delivery of high-quality products or services to customers is referred to as...
Strategy implementation
A vital area for MNCs to assess and manage
Content-oriented
Total quality management
3. 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
Organizational and personal
Participative
Job content factors
4. A global functional division structure is used primarily by...
Social conditions
Extractive companies
Organizational and personal
Conglomerate
5. Kaizen is a Japanese term that means...
Continuous improvement
Followers
Indirect
International division structure
6. 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
Global product division structure
Financial incentives
Global area division structure
7. A key success factor is a factor that is necessary for a firm to compete effectively in a...
Idealized influence - inspirational motivation - intellectual stimulation and individualized consideration
Theory Z
Market niche
Environmental scanning
8. Positive organizational scholarship does not include...
Total quality management
Followers
Transnational network structure
Financial incentives
9. In a ____ investment - the goods or services produced are NOT similar to those produced at home.
A vital area for MNCs to assess and manage
Polycentric
Strategy implementation
Conglomerate
10. 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
Strategy implementation
Macro
Expropriation
Lump-sum method
11. The first assumption about the motivation process is that it is...
Regional instabilities
Goal-setting theory
Universal
Entrepreneurship
12. As an organizational characteristic - _____ is the assigning of individuals to specific - well-defined tasks.
Transformational
Global
Paternalistic
Specialization
13. Work-motivation theories can be broken down into two general categories which are...
Encourages harmony - responsiveness and sensibility
corporate objectives
Content and process
Job content factors
14. _____________ do not encourage the use of centralized decision-making
Codetermination
Theory Z
Expropriation
Heterogeneous product lines
15. As far as __________ are concerned - European firms are as centralized than American firms
Operational risks
Control measures
International
Specialization
16. 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.
Theory Y
Idealized influence - inspirational motivation - intellectual stimulation and individualized consideration
Continuous improvement
It gives first movers a significant advantage over later entrants
17. Social needs are...
the need for power and status
Franchise
Content-oriented
Idealized influence - inspirational motivation - intellectual stimulation and individualized consideration
18. Which of the following leaders takes action or intervenes in situations only when standards are NOT met?
Passive management-by-exception leader
International division structure
Job content factors
Regional instabilities
19. An individual from a host-country or a third-country national who is assigned to work in the home country is a...
Hygiene - motivators
foreign currency
Environmental scanning
Inpatriate
20. _____ are local managers who are hired by the MNC.
Centralization
Host-country nationals
Content-oriented
Lump-sum method
21. When market liberalization is delayed...
Lump-sum method
A hygiene factor
Control measures
It gives first movers a significant advantage over later entrants
22. The theory behind_____ is quite simple. The MNC works to maintain a stronger bargaining power position than that of the host country.
Strategy implementation
Transformational
Paternalistic
Ralative bargaining power
23. 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...
Followers
ISO 9000
Social conditions
The home country
24. The objectives of the foreign operation and the ___________ are similar
corporate objectives
Inpatriate
Content-oriented
Market niche
25. These MNCs do all of their training at their headquarters.
Operational risks
Franchise
Content-oriented
Ethnocentric
26. A legal system that requires workers and their managers to discuss major decisions is referred to as....
Heterogeneous product lines
Specialization
Codetermination
Lump-sum method
27. The return to one's home country from an overseas management assignment is referred to as...
Repatriation
Heterogeneous product lines
A hygiene factor
Theory Y
28. The output control in which profit responsibility is shared with product and geographic units is characteristic of a...
Conglomerate
Operational risks
Inpatriate
Matrix structure
29. The process of providing goods and services in accord with a plan of action is...
Total quality management
Matrix structure
Participative
Strategy implementation
30. Training programs are useful in preparing people for overseas assignments for many reasons. These reasons can be put into two general categories which are...
Ralative bargaining power
Joint venture
Organizational and personal
International
31. 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.
Polycentric
Lump-sum method
Content-oriented
ISO 9000
32. ________ are designed to tap specialized expertise or other resources in the company's worldwide subsidiaries.
Training
Global product division structure
Centralization
Specialized operations
33. William Ouchi's theory of leadership - which combines Japanese and U.S. assumptions and approaches to leader behavior is referred to as...
International
Theory Z
A hygiene factor
Horizontal
34. The seizure of businesses by a host country with little - if any - compensation to the owners is referred to as...
Encourages harmony - responsiveness and sensibility
Horizontal
Expropriation
Hygiene - motivators
35. 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.
Transformational
A hygiene factor
Market niche
Hygiene - motivators
36. In work motivation - factors internally controlled - such as responsibility - achievement and the work itself are referred to as...
A vital area for MNCs to assess and manage
Indirect
Job content factors
Polycentric
37. Which of the following MNCs places local nationals in key positions and allows these managers to appoint and develop their own people?
Global
Codetermination
Polycentric
Not extremely popular among MNCs
38. 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?
Regional instabilities
Polycentric
International
Heterogeneous product lines
39. Over the past decade political risk has become...
Transformational
Codetermination
the need for power and status
A vital area for MNCs to assess and manage
40. A structure under which global operations are organized on a geographic rather than a product basis is referred to as a...
Matrix structure
Conglomerate
Global area division structure
Training
41. ______ risk issues often take forms such as industry regulation - taxes on specific types of business activity and various restrictive local laws.
It gives first movers a significant advantage over later entrants
Transformational
Micro
Universal
42. 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...
Strategy implementation
Matrix structure
Goal-setting theory
Encourages harmony - responsiveness and sensibility
43. 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...
A hygiene factor
Transnational network structure
A vital area for MNCs to assess and manage
Social conditions
44. Typically - MNCs utilizing this approach to strategic planning use a country-centered or multi-domestic strategy.
Passive management-by-exception leader
Political imperative
Idealized influence - inspirational motivation - intellectual stimulation and individualized consideration
Indirect
45. 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.
Transformational
ISO 9000
Control measures
A vital area for MNCs to assess and manage
46. The two-factor theory of motivation holds that two sets of factors influence job satisfaction. These are...
Hygiene - motivators
corporate objectives
Continuous improvement
Theory Z
47. This is an agreement in which two or more partners own and control an overseas business.
Training
Joint venture
Specialization
A hygiene factor
48. The adjustment model of the selection procedure for international assignments would include...
foreign currency
Host-country nationals
Training and previous experience
Goal-setting theory
49. Expatriate salaries typically are set according to the base pay of...
Heterogeneous product lines
Training
Repatriation
The home country
50. Controls that use reports and other written forms of communication to control operations are...
International
Indirect
Macro
Not extremely popular among MNCs
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