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International Management

Subject : business-skills
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1. 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?






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






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






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






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






6. Although a number of approaches to decision-making are used around the world - the overall trend currently is toward...






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






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






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






10. 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.






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






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






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






14. 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...






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






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






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






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






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






20. In general - some evidence suggests that testing is...






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






22. Social needs are...






23. 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.






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






25. This is an agreement in which two or more partners own and control an overseas business.






26. A key success factor is a factor that is necessary for a firm to compete effectively in a...






27. Positive organizational scholarship does not include...






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






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






30. The seizure of businesses by a host country with little - if any - compensation to the owners is referred to as...






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






32. 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.






33. MNCs may use ____________ to evaluate political risk






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






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






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






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






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






39. MNCs utilize Export maximums for generating...






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...






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






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






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






44. Not a quality needed to be a servant leader






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






46. 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






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






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






49. 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






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