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International Management

Subject : business-skills
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1. 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.






2. Not a quality needed to be a servant leader






3. 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






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






5. 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.






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






7. Social needs are...






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






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






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






11. 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?






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






19. 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...






20. 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...






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






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






23. MNCs may use ____________ to evaluate political risk






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






25. 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.






26. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






34. 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...






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






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






37. MNCs utilize Export maximums for generating...






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






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






40. 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...






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






42. Positive organizational scholarship does not include...






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






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






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






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






47. _____________ do not encourage the use of centralized decision-making






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






49. 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.






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