Exam 4: Integrative Managerial Issues

University (Scenario) Gina is a dean at Polydor College, a school with almost 6,000 students. In her daily activities, she has to deal with problems that involve students, faculty, curriculum, budgets, and a variety of other things. Among the problems Gina needs to deal with are complaints from students that the Physics Department has only one faculty member who is a woman and one who is a member of a minority group. Gina has been meeting with the department chair to address this problem. Gina recognizes that students and parents pay a lot of money to attend the university, so when large and small problems arise Gina wants them dealt with effectively. She has installed a 24-hour "Hassle Line" with highly trained people to answer questions and solve problems. She hopes to have her Hassle Line employees function within a customer responsive culture. -Gina's Hassle Line fields a call in which a work-study student is complaining that he is being discriminated against because he is a transgender person. What should Gina do?

Which feature of Hofstede's work lends the study a great deal of validity?

Which of the following is a basic definition of ethics?

University (Scenario) Gina is a dean at Polydor College, a school with almost 6,000 students. In her daily activities, she has to deal with problems that involve students, faculty, curriculum, budgets, and a variety of other things. Among the problems Gina needs to deal with are complaints from students that the Physics Department has only one faculty member who is a woman and one who is a member of a minority group. Gina has been meeting with the department chair to address this problem. Gina recognizes that students and parents pay a lot of money to attend the university, so when large and small problems arise Gina wants them dealt with effectively. She has installed a 24-hour "Hassle Line" with highly trained people to answer questions and solve problems. She hopes to have her Hassle Line employees function within a customer responsive culture. -In the Physics department, which choice best characterizes the problem Gina needs to work on?

Business Expansion Plan (Scenario) As a business expansion director, Shana's goal is to scout potential locations for her company's planned expansion to other countries. There are many options, some of which include maintaining the business's head office in the United States. Other options send company representatives to foreign operations when necessary, or establishing separate operation facilities abroad and hiring locals as managers. -Shana is considering forming a partnership with a Dutch corporation that will create an entirely new company called Half Moon. What kind of enterprise will Half Moon be?

People who doubt that there is a relationship between company performance and social involvement think that this could account for any positive performance effect seen in companies that practice social involvement.

What does Wal-Mart's business policy say about the company's belief in global climate change?

When a firm advertises that it only uses recycled paper products, it is ________.

In his study of differences in cultural environments, Geert Hofstede found that ________.

Managers with a parochial view of the world tend to see things from the point of view of a foreign culture.

Which kind of discrimination is allowed under federal law?

________ is a good example of a multidomestic corporation.

As long as it has broken no laws and done nothing unethical, a business has fulfilled its obligation to society.

In a short essay, list and explain the first three of Hofstede's dimensions of national culture.

Which of the following best defines sustainability for a company?

Future orientation is a measure of how successful a society is at delaying gratification.

A global village can be best characterized as a business climate in which there are ________.

According to Hofstede, countries such as Singapore and Japan are more collectivist than the United States.

Today's younger workers tend to give family a higher priority than their jobs.

In a country with a low uncertainty avoidance, people cope with uncertainty ________.