Exam 10: Strategy Implementation: Staffing and Directing

Which type of chief executive officer with a great deal of experience in that particular industry would be appropriate for a corporation following a concentration strategy emphasizing vertical or horizontal growth?

According to Hofstede's cultural dimensions, which country scored among the lowest on uncertainty avoidance?

Training and development can be especially important for organizations implementing an overall low cost or differentiation strategy, but not for those in retrenchment.

Which method of managing disparate cultures involves one organization's domination over another willing organization?

Which method of managing disparate cultures involves a relatively balanced give-and-take of cultural and managerial practices between the merger partners, and no strong imposition of cultural change on either company?

According to the American Society of Training and Development, the average annual expenditure per employee on corporate training and development is

One research study of TQM successes and failures concluded that a key ingredient in TQM programs is

To improve organizational learning, many multinational corporations are providing their managers with international assignments as long as five years.

Which of the following is NOT an essential ingredient of TQM?

Assimilation involves the relatively balanced give-and-take of culture and managerial practices between the merger practices.

Research suggests that boards of directors tend to look outside the firm for the next CEO under which following circumstance?

While an organization's culture can exert a powerful influence on the behavior of all employees, it can seldom affect a company's ability to shift its strategic direction.

The percentage of European and Japanese-based expatriate managers who fail to adjust to a host country's social and business environment is

What are the four elements of the MBO process?

Nations like Greece and Japan whose people want career stability, formal rules, and clear-cut measures of performance would score high on which of Hofstede's cultural dimensions?

Chandler proposed that the most appropriate CEO for a firm remains constant as the company proceeds through its life cycle.

Which one of the following is NOT part of the process of MBO?

Successful defender firms tend to be headed by CEOs with backgrounds in the areas of

What did a study of 173 firms over a 25-year period reveal about CEOs of successful corporations?

Which method of managing disparate cultures is characterized by a separation of the two companies' cultures because of their differences?