1) ________ is optimized when career opportunities provided by the organization are
congruent with repatriate career goals and aspirations.
a) team management
b) organizational efficiency
c) productivity
d) knowledge transfer
2) where ownership is divided among several partners, the parent organizations are
more likely to delegate the operational running of the ijv to ________.
a) local ijv management
b) parent company management
c) middle managers at the parent company level
d) management teams from the largest company in the joint venture
3) which of the following is the final stage of the ihrm process that is used to maximize
the effectiveness of expatriate assignments?
a) selection of expatriate
b) debriefing expatriate and family to improve ihrm process
c) development of contract
d) assessment of development and support needs
4) al razim, a construction engineer, recently travelled to germany in order to find
investors for his real-estate project. while he finally succeeded in getting an investor, he
was surprised by the explicitness of the germans. sometimes all he got was a direct
“no.” this is because germans are a ________ culture.
a) polychronic
b) high-context
c) low-context
d) high-contact
5) in general, centralized decision making is common for some functions such as
________.
a) sales
b) finance
c) marketing
d) production
6) in which of the following is a firm’s foreign operations integrated into the activities
and responsibilities of each department to gain operative specialization and economies
of scale?
a) global matrix structure
b) global geographic structure
c) global divisional structure
d) global functional structure
7) ________ is an acquired skill that refer(s) to making decisions with less information
and more uncertainty about the process and the outcome.
a) technical skills
b) managerial skills
c) multiple perspectives
d) tolerance for ambiguity
8) in ________ cultures, communication occurs within an extensive network of close
personal and business relationships.
a) high-contact
b) monochronic
c) high-context
d) low-contact
9) according to tung, which of the following refers to a training technique where the
trainees are acquainted with documentary programs about the country’s geography,
economics, sociopolitical history, and so forth?
a) field experiences
b) sensitivity training
c) language training
d) area studies
10) which of the following grants the rights to a firm in the host country to either
produce or sell a product, or both?
a) international licensing agreement
b) voluntary export restraint
c) memorandum of association
d) letter of credit
11) which of the following terms refers to a bond between specially connected firms
that generates preferential treatment to members of the network?
a) kanban
b) kaizen
c) guanxihu
d) guanxi
12) differentiate between managers in specific-oriented cultures (such as the united
states) and managers in diffuse-oriented cultures (such as china).
13) ________ are partnerships between two or more firms that decide they can better
pursue their mutual goals by combining their resources as well as their existing
distinctive competitive advantages.
a) greenfield investments
b) strategic alliances
c) foreign subsidiaries
d) turnkey operations
14) which of the following is the primary benefit for a firm that carefully manages its
expatriates’ careers?
a) creating global opportunities for junior managers
b) retaining managers with global experience and skills
c) maintaining close connections with national subsidiaries
d) recruiting fresh college graduates for global management positions
15) ________ occurs when the local government seizes the foreign-owned assets of the
mnc and provides inadequate compensation.
a) privatization
b) expropriation
c) private action
d) repatriation
16) in the negotiation process, participation in social events, tours, ceremonies, and
informal conversation is a characteristic of the ________ stage.
a) preparation
b) information exchange
c) relationship building
d) concessions and agreement
17) which of the following is true of countries with low masculinity?
a) more job conflicts
b) increase in work-related stress
c) more women in high-level jobs
d) lack of concern for others
18) the ________ approach to conflict is being used when both parties negotiate on the
basis of factual information and logical analysis.
a) instrumental-oriented
b) expressive-oriented
c) affective-oriented
d) individual-oriented
19) which of the following significantly increases the complexity of social
responsibility and ethical behavior of mncs?
a) distance between the headquarters and the subsidiaries
b) difficulties posed in training managers from different cultures
c) additional stakeholders associated with the firm’s activities
d) international laws, regulations, and moral principles
20) which of the following terms refers to any cultural variables that undermine the
communication of intended meaning?
a) cultural ethics
b) cultural empathy
c) cultural noise
d) cultural attribution