Exam 5: Managing in the Global Arena

________ are members of an organization who live and work in a country where they do not have citizenship.

Zac,an American citizen,has worked for a company in Berlin for the last five years.Which one of the following scenarios most closely mirrors the situation Zac is in?

The management of a company decides to take corrective action in the way they have been comparing profits generated by organizational units located in different countries and decides to represent it in terms of different currencies.Which one of the following management functions is being performed here?

Managers with an ethnocentric attitude are prone to stereotype foreign management practices as faulty and unreasonable.

Expatriates are organization members who live and work in a country in which they are not citizens.

Geert Hofstede's research has been instrumental in understanding how cultures across nations vary.Mexico and France valuing autocratic leadership is a reflection of which one of the following Hofstede cultural dimensions?

Countries that highly promote ________ have citizenry that tends to emphasize,expect,and accept more autocratic than democratic leadership.

International plans that include ________ emphasize the attainment of organizational objectives through partnerships with foreign companies.

How can companies and management work to better prepare expatriates for their assignments?

In which of the following areas does international planning emphasize reaching organizational objectives through the purchase of the operating assets of another company in a foreign country?

________ is the set of characteristics of a given group of people and their environment and includes components like norms,values,habits,education and religion.

A(n)________ organization considers national borders to be inconsequential to its operations,with ownership,control,and management being from many different countries.

A partnership formed by a company in one country with a company in another country for the purpose of pursuing some mutually desirable business undertaking is known as a(n)________.

The process of bringing individuals who have been working abroad back to their home country and reintegrating them into the organization's home-country operations is called ________.

The ________ attitude is generally thought to be the most appropriate for managers in multinational corporations.

A Canada-based shoe manufacturing company in Malaysia has hired a Malaysian manager to manage it,because the company's CEO believes that the manager will understand the situation and manage the plant better than any foreign manager.This company is said to have a(n)________.

When a company provides an expatriate with basic information about life in a foreign country,such as personal safety,who to call in an emergency,and how to write a check,the company is providing training in ________.

Which one of the following is a characteristic of domestic management?

Organization members who are citizens of one country and work in another country for an organization headquartered in still another country are known as ________.

What are the six stages of multinationalization? What activities does a company perform at each stage?