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Module 03 Sociocultural Forces Answer Key
True / False Questions
1.
We are each born with a unique culture.
2.
International business managers need to be able to communicate across cultural borders,
even if they don't speak foreign languages.
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3.
Anthropologist E. T. Hall suggests that, to learn another culture, you need to spend two
weeks in it with a training program.
4.
When operating in other cultures, if we realize that, underneath it all, we are all the same,
we will be fine.
5.
Business makes few costly mistakes in product introductions into foreign markets.
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6.
In Human Resources, the American employee protection laws (Equal Employment
Opportunity Commission [EEOC]) allow an American company to be successful on the
cultural front in all foreign labor markets.
7.
Cultural attitudes toward change can influence the acceptance of new production
methods.
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8.
Leadership traits may vary some by culture, but underneath, they all build on the basic
idea that all people want to be led and directed.
9.
Although some business areas are affected by culture, accounting and finance are
objective, and thus, universal.
10.
When we use cultural frameworks to build our understanding of another culture, we use
our own culture as an implicit reference point.
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11.
In Hall's use, context is the irrelevant environment in a communication act.
12.
In high context cultures, people tend to form long-lasting relationships that endure over
time.
13.
Hofstede's individualism-collectivism dimension measures the degree to which people
tend to be integrated into groups.
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14.
Hofstede's framework is based on social science theory.
15.
Feminine cultures in Hofstede's dimensions care about relationships and are not focused
on business success. For them, it is quality of life that matters.
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16.
Hofstede describes his pragmatic versus normative dimension as dealing with Virtue
regardless of Truth.
17.
Trompenaars's dimension of universalism versus particularism measures whether rules or
rewards regulate behaviors.
18.
Trompenaars's dimension of individualism versus communitarianism differs greatly from
Hofstede's individualism-collectivism dimension.
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19.
Your neighbor's business is cutting down an acre of first-growth, virgin forest and planting
a lawn and garden beds at their headquarters. You are likely to be in an Anglo culture
where domination of nature seems normal.
20.
Trompenaars's achievement versus ascription dimension describes social status based on
what one does or who one is. The United States is a culture in which people build who
they are through work, so its social status tends to be based on ascription.
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21.
A culture's aesthetics is the sense of moral behavior taught to the young.
22.
Religion is not an important aspect of culture in countries that are secular where the
church and state are split.
23.
Gift giving across cultures is a simple kindness and need not be complicated with
attempts to understand. The act of generosity says everything in and of itself.
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24.
Leadership is universal; all people want to be led.
25.
Human resources are influenced by cultural values because values are the foundation of
motivation and evaluation.
26.
There are few cultural misunderstandings in the discipline of marketing.
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27.
The unspoken language cannot tell the international manager something that the spoken
language does not.
28.
There are three main classes of social institutions, based on the conditions of their
formation: family, kinship, and free association.
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29.
The family is the basic unit of institutions based on free association.
30.
"When in Rome, do as the Romans do" is a solid, moral guideline.
Multiple Choice Questions
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31.
A basic cultural truth is that
32.
Because culture is not directly observable
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33.
Religion is a part of a group's culture because
34.
The most common cultural tradition from which various religions have grown is
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35.
Conversational distance
36.
In business, the ritual of gift giving is a way to
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37.
Culture frameworks are helpful, but their use may
38.
Hofstede's uncertainty avoidance measure captures
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39.
Hofstede's masculinity-femininity dimension is a measure of a culture's
40.
Trompenaars's universalism-particularism dimension addresses
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41.
Trompenaars's diffuse cultures are called
diffuse
because
42.
Magdi Batato's experience at Nestlé Malaysia
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43.
The United States and Mexico share this Trompenaars dimension:
44.
The ritual of gift giving in international business is important because it creates
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45.
Kinship and free association are examples of
46.
The explicit communicator in an LC culture (Hall) is
