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International Management
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. The first assumption about the motivation process is that it is...
Theory Y
Universal
Specialization
Transnational network structure
2. MNCs utilize Export maximums for generating...
Global
Universal
the need for power and status
foreign currency
3. A structural arrangement in which domestic divisions are given worldwide responsibility for product groups is referred to as a...
Global product division structure
Hygiene - motivators
Encourages harmony - responsiveness and sensibility
Continuous improvement
4. A structural arrangement that handles all international operations out of a division created for this purpose is referred to as a...
Repatriation
International division structure
Job content factors
Indirect
5. Price controls - financing restrictions - export commitments - taxes and local-sourcing requirements are examples of...
Operational risks
Organizational and personal
Followers
Regional instabilities
6. 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...
Indirect
Followers
Goal-setting theory
Not extremely popular among MNCs
7. As far as __________ are concerned - European firms are as centralized than American firms
Training
Operational risks
Control measures
Idealized influence - inspirational motivation - intellectual stimulation and individualized consideration
8. The two-factor theory of motivation holds that two sets of factors influence job satisfaction. These are...
Continuous improvement
Repatriation
Universal
Hygiene - motivators
9. 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...
Transnational network structure
Training and previous experience
Horizontal
Passive management-by-exception leader
10. 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
Transnational network structure
Specialization
Hygiene - motivators
Environmental scanning
11. The theory behind_____ is quite simple. The MNC works to maintain a stronger bargaining power position than that of the host country.
Goal-setting theory
Encourages harmony - responsiveness and sensibility
Ralative bargaining power
A hygiene factor
12. The return to one's home country from an overseas management assignment is referred to as...
Repatriation
Strategy implementation
Transnational network structure
Joint venture
13. In a ____ investment - the goods or services produced are NOT similar to those produced at home.
Global product division structure
Expropriation
Host-country nationals
Conglomerate
14. The objectives of the foreign operation and the ___________ are similar
Organizational and personal
Job content factors
corporate objectives
Repatriation
15. Typically - MNCs utilizing this approach to strategic planning use a country-centered or multi-domestic strategy.
Job content factors
Universal
Continuous improvement
Political imperative
16. 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?
International
Heterogeneous product lines
Control measures
Theory Z
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.
Micro
Training and previous experience
Passive management-by-exception leader
Theory Y
18. Although a number of approaches to decision-making are used around the world - the overall trend currently is toward...
Content and process
Global
foreign currency
Centralization
19. A structure under which global operations are organized on a geographic rather than a product basis is referred to as a...
Theory Y
Global area division structure
Content and process
Extractive companies
20. As an organizational characteristic - _____ is the assigning of individuals to specific - well-defined tasks.
Paternalistic
Content-oriented
Specialization
Followers
21. 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...
Indirect
Social conditions
It gives first movers a significant advantage over later entrants
Strategy implementation
22. Expatriate salaries typically are set according to the base pay of...
Micro
Ethnocentric
The home country
Financial incentives
23. A key success factor is a factor that is necessary for a firm to compete effectively in a...
Goal-setting theory
Market niche
Extractive companies
Job content factors
24. The adjustment model of the selection procedure for international assignments would include...
Macro
Transnational network structure
Indirect
Training and previous experience
25. Kaizen is a Japanese term that means...
Universal
Continuous improvement
The home country
Transformational
26. Over the past decade political risk has become...
A vital area for MNCs to assess and manage
Political imperative
International
Regional instabilities
27. Work-motivation theories can be broken down into two general categories which are...
Hygiene - motivators
Passive management-by-exception leader
Content and process
Specialized operations
28. This strategy is appropriate when the need for national responsiveness is low and the need for globalization integration is high.
Global
Not extremely popular among MNCs
Codetermination
Content-oriented
29. To motivate employees - especially in foreign countries with high individualism companies tend to offer...
Financial incentives
The home country
Training
Specialized operations
30. A global functional division structure is used primarily by...
Extractive companies
International division structure
Global
Theory Z
31. A legal system that requires workers and their managers to discuss major decisions is referred to as....
Codetermination
Entrepreneurship
Social conditions
Theory Z
32. 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.
Goal-setting theory
Paternalistic
It gives first movers a significant advantage over later entrants
Matrix structure
33. An individual from a host-country or a third-country national who is assigned to work in the home country is a...
ISO 9000
Content-oriented
Inpatriate
Universal
34. The process of providing goods and services in accord with a plan of action is...
Ethnocentric
Hygiene - motivators
Global
Strategy implementation
35. 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.
Market niche
Expropriation
Ethnocentric
Content-oriented
36. As a general statement - most evidence indicates that European managers tend to use this approach to leadership.
Training
Organizational and personal
Participative
Paternalistic
37. Social needs are...
It gives first movers a significant advantage over later entrants
the need for power and status
Extractive companies
Polycentric
38. In work motivation - factors internally controlled - such as responsibility - achievement and the work itself are referred to as...
Job content factors
Goal-setting theory
The home country
Indirect
39. William Ouchi's theory of leadership - which combines Japanese and U.S. assumptions and approaches to leader behavior is referred to as...
Idealized influence - inspirational motivation - intellectual stimulation and individualized consideration
Theory Z
Joint venture
Global area division structure
40. The top-ranking goal for professional technical personnel from various countries is...
Training
Followers
Codetermination
Extractive companies
41. 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
corporate objectives
Macro
Global area division structure
Training and previous experience
42. These agreements typically require payment of a fee upfront and then a percentage of the revenues.
the need for power and status
Content and process
Franchise
Macro
43. 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.
International
Market niche
the need for power and status
ISO 9000
44. Not a quality needed to be a servant leader
Entrepreneurship
Heterogeneous product lines
Market niche
A hygiene factor
45. 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...
Specialized operations
Codetermination
Control measures
Lump-sum method
46. Controls that use reports and other written forms of communication to control operations are...
Job content factors
Specialized operations
Global product division structure
Indirect
47. The output control in which profit responsibility is shared with product and geographic units is characteristic of a...
Matrix structure
Training and previous experience
Passive management-by-exception leader
Repatriation
48. Which of the following MNCs places local nationals in key positions and allows these managers to appoint and develop their own people?
Environmental scanning
Conglomerate
Polycentric
The home country
49. Salary under Herzberg's theory is...
Centralization
A hygiene factor
Training and previous experience
Theory Z
50. According to Bass - the most effective leaders were characterized by four interrelated factors. These are...
Indirect
Environmental scanning
Lump-sum method
Idealized influence - inspirational motivation - intellectual stimulation and individualized consideration