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International Management

Subject : business-skills
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1. ________ are designed to tap specialized expertise or other resources in the company's worldwide subsidiaries.






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






3. 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...






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






11. MNCs may use ____________ to evaluate political risk






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






13. 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.






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






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






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






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






18. When market liberalization is delayed...






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






20. 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.






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






22. MNCs utilize Export maximums for generating...






23. Positive organizational scholarship does not include...






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






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






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






27. 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






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






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






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






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






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






33. The theory behind_____ is quite simple. The MNC works to maintain a stronger bargaining power position than that of the host country.






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






35. 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.






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






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






38. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






49. 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?






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