Question 1

________ are members of an organization who live and work in a country where they do not have citizenship.

Accepted Answer

A) Expatriates 
B) Host-country nationals 
C) Naturalized citizens 
D) Repatriates 
E) Dual citizens

Question 2

Zac,an American citizen,has worked for a company in Berlin for the last five years.Which one of the following scenarios most closely mirrors the situation Zac is in?

Accepted Answer

A) Sandra is Polish and works for a U.K-based company in Venice. 
B) Winston is a U.K.national but has been sent to Canada by his company to handle the operations there for the next two years. 
C) Vanessa is English and works in London for a company based in Denmark. 
D) Ursula is a Finn but has been in Germany for the last four years,working for a company headquartered in Japan. 
E) Nikolai works for an Irish company in Oslo and is a Norwegian by birth.

Question 3

The management of a company decides to take corrective action in the way they have been comparing profits generated by organizational units located in different countries and decides to represent it in terms of different currencies.Which one of the following management functions is being performed here?

Accepted Answer

A) planning 
B) influencing 
C) controlling 
D) organizing 
E) leading

Question 4

Managers with an ethnocentric attitude are prone to stereotype foreign management practices as faulty and unreasonable.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 5

Expatriates are organization members who live and work in a country in which they are not citizens.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 6

Geert Hofstede's research has been instrumental in understanding how cultures across nations vary.Mexico and France valuing autocratic leadership is a reflection of which one of the following Hofstede cultural dimensions?

Accepted Answer

A) power distance 
B) uncertainty avoidance 
C) individualism and collectivism 
D) masculinity and femininity 
E) short- and long-term orientation

Question 7

Countries that highly promote ________ have citizenry that tends to emphasize,expect,and accept more autocratic than democratic leadership.

Accepted Answer

A) short-term orientation 
B) individualism 
C) power distance 
D) masculinity 
E) collectivism

Question 8

International plans that include ________ emphasize the attainment of organizational objectives through partnerships with foreign companies.

Accepted Answer

A) joint ventures 
B) imports 
C) exports 
D) license agreements 
E) direct investing

Question 9

How can companies and management work to better prepare expatriates for their assignments?

Accepted Answer

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Question 10

In which of the following areas does international planning emphasize reaching organizational objectives through the purchase of the operating assets of another company in a foreign country?

Accepted Answer

A) direct investing 
B) joint venture 
C) importing 
D) exporting 
E) license agreements

Question 11

________ is the set of characteristics of a given group of people and their environment and includes components like norms,values,habits,education and religion.

Accepted Answer

A) Culture 
B) Politics 
C) Laws 
D) Attitude 
E) Ethics

Question 12

A(n)________ organization considers national borders to be inconsequential to its operations,with ownership,control,and management being from many different countries.

Accepted Answer

A) international 
B) regional 
C) pan-national 
D) transnational 
E) domestic

Question 13

A partnership formed by a company in one country with a company in another country for the purpose of pursuing some mutually desirable business undertaking is known as a(n)________.

Accepted Answer

A) international market agreement 
B) direct investment 
C) joint venture 
D) license agreement 
E) franchise agreement

Question 14

The process of bringing individuals who have been working abroad back to their home country and reintegrating them into the organization's home-country operations is called ________.

Accepted Answer

A) repatriation 
B) expatriation 
C) immigration 
D) polycentrism 
E) emigration

Question 15

The ________ attitude is generally thought to be the most appropriate for managers in multinational corporations.

Accepted Answer

A) geocentric 
B) ethnocentric 
C) polycentric 
D) egocentric 
E) regiocentric

Question 16

A Canada-based shoe manufacturing company in Malaysia has hired a Malaysian manager to manage it,because the company's CEO believes that the manager will understand the situation and manage the plant better than any foreign manager.This company is said to have a(n)________.

Accepted Answer

A) ethnocentric attitude 
B) polycentric attitude 
C) egocentric attitude 
D) geocentric attitude 
E) gynocentric attitude

Question 17

When a company provides an expatriate with basic information about life in a foreign country,such as personal safety,who to call in an emergency,and how to write a check,the company is providing training in ________.

Accepted Answer

A) cultural profiling 
B) cultural adaptation 
C) cultural application 
D) logistical information 
E) repatriation

Question 18

Which one of the following is a characteristic of domestic management?

Accepted Answer

A) widely disparate economic conditions 
B) national markets varying greatly in population and area 
C) different national sovereignties 
D) markets at different stages of the industrial revolution 
E) people living in similar value systems

Question 19

Organization members who are citizens of one country and work in another country for an organization headquartered in still another country are known as ________.

Accepted Answer

A) expatriates 
B) host-country nationals 
C) third-country nationals 
D) repatriates 
E) naturalized citizens

Question 20

What are the six stages of multinationalization? What activities does a company perform at each stage?

Accepted Answer

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Exam 5: Managing in the Global Arena