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International Management

Subject : business-skills
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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. The seizure of businesses by a host country with little - if any - compensation to the owners is referred to as...






2. 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.






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






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






5. 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?






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






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






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






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






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






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






12. Which type of leadership is popular in many technologically advanced countries?






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






29. 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






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






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






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






34. MNCs may use ____________ to evaluate political risk






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






36. 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






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






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






39. 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...






40. 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.






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






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






43. MNCs utilize Export maximums for generating...






44. Social needs are...






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






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






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






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






49. 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...






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