Deck 2: The Cultural Context of IHRM

Question 1

Which of these GLOBE study dimensions explains why high-performance might not be rewarded much in certain cultures?

A) gender egalitarianism
B) assertiveness
C) performance orientation
D) humane orientation

Answer 1

C

Question 2

In-group collectivism is the degree to which individuals express pride, loyalty, and cohesiveness in their

A) individual work
B) organizations or families
C) donations to charity
D) none of the above

Answer 2

B

Question 3

________ is the degree to which a collective encourages and rewards group members for performance improvement and excellence.

A) Uncertainty Avoidance
B) Power Distance
C) Assertiveness
D) Performance Orientation

Answer 3

D

Question 4

________ is the degree to which members of a collective expect power to be distributed equally.

A) Uncertainty Avoidance
B) Power Distance
C) Assertiveness
D) Performance Orientation

Question 5

Which of these countries does NOT have a high context culture?

A) Germany
B) France
C) Japan
D) China

Question 6

Female managers are rare where which of these cultural dimensions is lowest?

A) in-group collectivism
B) uncertainty avoidance
C) gender egalitarianism
D) individualism

Question 7

Which researcher

A) Kluckhohn and Kroeber
B) Hosftede
C) Schein
D) Trompenaars and Hampden-Turner

Question 8

Publicly rewarding a specific employee's performance might be seen poorly by the employee and others because of which cultural dimension?

A) power distance
B) uncertainty avoidance
C) femininity vs. masculinity
D) individualism vs. collectivism

Question 9

Which of these is NOT a criticism of the Hofstede study?

A) could not be replicated
B) mixed practice with values
C) sex and classes ignored
D) interaction between variables ignored

Question 10

In countries with this cultural context, employees tend to prefer fixed compensation packages.

A) high uncertainty avoidance
B) low uncertainty avoidance
C) high collectivism
D) high individualism

Question 11

The goals of cross-cultural management studies include each of these EXCEPT:

A) determining how to cause organizational behavior to become the same across countries and cultures
B) description of organizational behavior within countries and cultures
C) comparison of organizational behavior within countries and cultures
D) explanation and improvement of employee, customer, suppliers, or business partner interactions in different countries and cultures

Question 12

According to Gerhart, most of the variance in cross-cultural management studies results come from

A) individual manager-specific differences
B) organization-specific differences
C) country-specific differences
D) cultural differences

Question 13

Spatial orientation is a cultural measurement of ____ during speaking

A) room awareness
B) space needed for gestures
C) where eyes look
D) distance between people

Question 14

Which of these Trompenaar dimensions distinguishes between cultures that believe more in absolute or relative truths?

A) specific vs. diffuse
B) emotional vs. neutral
C) individualism vs. communitarianism
D) universalism vs. particularism

Question 15

Short term cultures are characterized by

A) high savings rates
B) persistence in pursuing goals
C) ranking based on status
D) expectations of quick profit

Question 16

A long-term culture is characterized by each of the following EXCEPT:

A) low savings rates
B) respect for social and status obligations within certain limits
C) high investment activity
D) readiness to subordinate oneself to a purpose

Question 17

When a culture treats time as one thing after another

A) time dimension
B) monochrome time
C) polychrome time
D) time concept

Question 18

Which researcher

A) Kluckhohn and Kroeber
B) Hosftede
C) Schein
D) Trompenaars and Hampden-Turner

Question 19

According to the Hofstede study, which of these countries did NOT exhibit a small power distance?

A) New Zealand
B) Phillipines
C) Great Britain
D) USA

Question 20

In societies high on gender egalitarianism

A) roles are highly gender-defined
B) women and men advance equally
C) women advance more
D) men advance more