Exam 4: Integrative Managerial Issues

Which of the following factors has contributed to the current view that management is more unethical today than before?

Hofstede's findings were not confirmed by later studies.

Since businesses have more power and resources than ordinary individuals, supporters of social responsibility claim that businesses have ________.

How do global supply chains resemble biological organisms?

Which statement most closely represents the true state of managerial ethics?

In a strategic alliance, companies join together to form a separate entity to produce a product.

Workforce diversity will be significantly affected in the next decade by ________.

A global corporation ________.

Which of the following best characterizes a transnational corporation?

A Different View (Scenario) Jana has spent the last year traveling to different operations for her company. She visited factories in Mexico and Thailand, a finance operation in Singapore, a pearl company in Japan, and many other venues. She now has collected her thoughts about the various places she visited. -In Mexico and Japan, Jana noticed that it seemed easy to convince people to work together for the good of the group. How would you characterize this trait?

Social responsiveness refers to the capacity of a firm to ________.

Which choice constitutes the typical first step for an organization that is "going global"?

Supporters of social responsibility claim that being socially responsible ________.

In a short essay, explain the differences between a multidomestic corporation, a global corporation, and a transnational corporation.

A Different View (Scenario) Jana has spent the last year traveling to different operations for her company. She visited factories in Mexico and Thailand, a finance operation in Singapore, a pearl company in Japan, and many other venues. She now has collected her thoughts about the various places she visited. -In Venezuela Jana found that people tended to show great deference toward their superiors. When meeting with one higher-up, she noticed that the local managers seemed to exhibit extremely obsequious behavior. How would you characterize this trait?

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. -If Shana's company decides to open operations in France but maintain company management in the United States, it would be considered a ________.

A Coca-Cola bottling plant in Bolivia is wholly owned by a local businessperson. What kind of venture is this plant likely to be?

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 sees her school's greatest opportunity to increase enrollment in prospective students who were born in the 1980s and early 1990s. What term describes these prospective students?

In the socioeconomic view of organizational social responsibility, management's responsibility includes protecting and improving society.

Supporters of socially responsible businesses claim that by becoming socially responsible, businesses can expect ________.