Exam 11: Managing for Ethics and Social Responsibility in a Global Environment

A country's sociopolitical environment increases the number of ethical questions with a company must deal.

The "psychic distance paradox" causes performance failures because:

___________ defines themselves in terms of their group memberships and their contributions to the success of those groups.

Because of the expatriate manager's and the manager's family's inability to adjust to the foreign work environment, many overseas assignments end early and unsuccessfully.

Which of the following is false?

The term emotional intelligence (EQ) has been used to describe an individual's ability to be effective in cross-cultural situations.

Visitors to another culture will notice things that are important at home but that may not be important in the target culture.

Interestingly, ethical issues are universal and do not vary from culture to culture.

Of the following statements about the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) Anti-Bribery Convention (the "Convention") which are untrue.

Behavior is difficult to predict because people adapt their behaviors to what they believe others expect of them.

____________ assumes absolute truths that would require exactly the same standard and behavior in every culture.

Which of the following is legal according to the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) passed in 1977?

Research suggests that if we understand how people think and behave in their native environment, we will understand how a particular group will behave in relation to cultural outsiders.

Research finds that successful international business persons are inflexible when it comes to cultural aspects with little or no tolerance for ambiguity.

In its Bribe Payers Index (BPI) of 2008, Transparency International (TI) cited Russia, China, Mexico, and India for having particularly high levels of perceived bribery.

Unfortunately, fluency in a foreign language assists with verbal communication, but helps little in understanding the culture.

Justice and fairness are universal human values. Therefore, specific beliefs and preferences about what is a fair allocation are also universally interdependent.

The additional cost of corruption to international projects is less than 5% on average making it practical to include corruption as a cost of doing business.

Which of the following is false about culture?

Although bribes are an accepted part of commercial transactions in many Asian, African, Latin American, and Middle Eastern countries, it is usually against the law in these very same countries.