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International Management

Subject : business-skills
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1. The top-ranking goal for professional technical personnel from various countries is...






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






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






4. 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?






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






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






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






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






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






10. 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.






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






12. When market liberalization is delayed...






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






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






15. Not a quality needed to be a servant leader






16. 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...






17. Positive organizational scholarship does not include...






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






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






20. MNCs utilize Export maximums for generating...






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






29. 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






30. 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...






31. 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






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






33. 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.






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






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






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






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






38. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






46. MNCs may use ____________ to evaluate political risk






47. Social needs are...






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






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






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