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Management
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The government's system of checks and balances is called the _______.
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The right of states to protect its citizenry is called its _______.
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The legal authority that a court must have to hear a case is called _______.
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How does a concern for the natural environment affect cross-cultural management?
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Describe the implications of the rapid advancements in information and communications technology.
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What is the impact for international managers of multinational organizations of the fall of state socialism?
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How is uneven economic development likely to affect international management?
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______ have a more than one pattern of identification, not with regard to different organizational units, as discussed previously, but with different cultures. Multicultural individuals have a simultaneous awareness of being a member of (and sometimes an alien in) two cultures.
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The ______ include natural resources as air and water as well as such things as the atmosphere, space, and even the Internet.
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At the individual level, managers in transition economies are likely to have varying degrees of management education and a cultural profile characterized by ______.
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______ economic migration involves migrants returning to their country of origin.
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______ is characterized by growing worldwide connections between organizations and their various constituencies, by rapid and discontinuous change, by growing numbers and diversity of actors involved in global activities, and by greater managerial complexity.
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The characteristics of effective intercultural interaction in a management context can be summarized as good personal adjustment, development, and maintenance of good interpersonal relationships with culturally different others, and the effective completion of task-related goals.
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There will be decreasing pressure on the international manager of the future to be environmentally responsible.
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Information and communication technologies involve two main activities: searching for information and processing information.
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As transition economies grow in importance, managers in multinational organizations will need to understand the legacy of state socialism that influences both organizations and managers.
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One of the most significant effects of the uneven economic development around the globe from a cross-cultural management perspective has to do with the impact on the labor pool.
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Globalization is characterized by growing worldwide connections between organizations and their various constituencies, by rapid and discontinuous change, by growing numbers and diversity of actors involved in global activities, and by greater managerial complexity.
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______ have a more than one pattern of identification, not with regard to different organizational units, as discussed previously, but with different cultures. Multicultural individuals have a simultaneous awareness of being a member of (and sometimes an alien in) two cultures. A. Multiculturals B. Monoculturals C. Cognitives D. Complexities
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Training for cross-cultural effectiveness has shifted from a focus on ______ skills to ______ skills.
A. general; specific
B. specific; culture-general
C. cognitive; awareness
D. awareness; cognitive
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Interacting effectively with people from other cultures and behaving appropriately in a culturally novel context are indications of the cross-cultural skills and abilities needed by global managers.
The characteristics of effective intercultural interaction in a management context include all of the following EXCEPT:
A. good personal adjustment, indicated by feelings of contentment and well-being
B. development and maintenance of good interpersonal relationships with culturally different others
C. mastery of the foreign culture
D. the effective completion of task-related goals.
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Which of the following is NOT one of ways in which the characteristics of the international manager are changing?
A. The number of expatriate assignment failures is increasing
B. The number of women on overseas assignment has been slowly increasing
C. The number of dual-career partnerships is increasing
D. The number of international managers from places other than the United States and Western Europe is increasing
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Reasons for nonstandard foreign assignments such as commuting overseas, rotational assignments, and contractual short-term postings include all of the following EXCEPT:
A. cost reduction
B. employee immobility
C. advances in communication technology
D. tax incentives
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When knowledge transferred through a multinational organization takes on a new meaning as it moves from one sociocultural context to another, it is said to be ______.
A. hybridized
B. recontextualized
C. contextualized
D. diffused
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______ can reinforce hierarchical organization by making it easier for headquarters managers to learn quickly about performance problems of far flung operations and to just as quickly attempt to intervene. It can also reinforce flatter organizations by making it more convenient to delegate decision making at all organizational levels.
A. Diffusion
B. Hybridization
C. Information technology
D. Recontextualization
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The ______ is one way multinational-ness of the organizational context affects management over and above what happens in a purely domestic context. It involves something unusual or unique about the multinational organizational context produces differences in a known management issue (e.g., global virtual teams).
A. frequency of occurrence
B. management contacts
C. functional relationships
D. unique constructs
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The ______ is one way multinational-ness of the organizational context affects management over and above what happens in a purely domestic context. It produces a moderator effect in the relationships between management activities (e.g., the moderating effect of cultural differences on the transfer of knowledge).
A. frequency of occurrence
B. management contacts
C. functional relationships
D. unique constructs
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The ______ is one way multinational-ness of the organizational context affects management over and above what happens in a purely domestic context. It involves extremes that occur in a management factor which makes its relationship with other factors more obvious in the multinational organization than in purely domestic organizations (e.g., a managers ties to the local environment).
A. frequency of occurrence
B. management contacts
C. functional relationships
D. unique constructs
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Which of the following is NOT one of the three ways the multinational organization provides a context that can have a unique effect?
A. Frequency of occurrence
B. Management contacts
C. Functional relationships
D. Unique constructs
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______ management involves the interaction of culturally different people in the context of organizations.
A. Transitional
B. Contextual
C. Free market
D. Cross-cultural
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The ______ that accompanies economic development increases the worlds prosperity but also increases the potential for ecological disruption.
A. diffusion
B. industrialization
C. hybridization
D. transition
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The ______ includes natural resources as air and water as well as such things as the atmosphere, space, and even the Internet.
A. global commons
B. functional relationship
C. organizational complexity
D. cultural environment
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______ in most industrialized countries means a reduction in the indigenous labor supply and an aging workforce.
A. Social interaction
B. Multinational-ness
C. unique constructs
D. population decline
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______ could be the answer to organizations trying to come to terms with so called big data."
A. Digital divide
B. Global identity
C. Artificial intelligence
D. Free flow
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______ can become an equalizer by providing ready access to knowledge and may also have an effect on work opportunities.
A. In-demand jobs
B. Strategic advantage
C. Information technology
D. Source of power
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A ______ separates those who are connected to the digital revolution in information and communications technology and those who have no access to the benefits of the new technologies.
A. digital divide
B. strategic advantage
C. free flow
D. source of power
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Information and communication technologies involve two main activities: ______ and transmitting it from one location to another.
A. identifying
B. socializing
C. globalizing
D. processing information
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Information and communication technologies involve two main activities: processing information and ______ from one location to another.
A. dividing it
B. transmitting it
C. developing it
D. mechanizing it
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At the individual level, managers in transition economies are likely to have varying degrees of management education and a cultural profile characterized by ______.
A. capitalism
B. state socialism
C. cultural diversity
D. vertical collectivism
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Countries undergoing marketization that all had been called transition economies in the late 1980s and 1990s have diverged from one another quite substantially but all contain some vestiges of ______.
A. state socialism
B. capitalism
C. economic transition
D. marketization
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According to the book, the failure of state socialism has left only one viable economic ideology: ______.
A. marketization
B. communism
C. capitalism
D. planned economy
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Which of the following is NOT one of the outcomes of job migration and the growing need for knowledge workers?
A. Increased the numbers of women in the workforce
B. Increased average age of workers
C. Increased demand for people with higher levels of education
D. Decreased cultural diversity in multinational organizations
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As the post 2008 global financial crisis worsened, many Eastern Europeans who had migrated to their more advanced EU neighbors after the EU enlargement in the early 2000s began to return to their home countries. This return is an example of ______ economic migration.
A. reverse
B. traditional
C. transitional
D. uneven
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Megan moved from China to the United States to work and pursue citizenship. Megans economic migration would fall into the ______ category.
A. constituency
B. traditional
C. parallel
D. uneven
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Acme Global expanded its staffing strategy to have work done in a foreign country because it needed access to skills not available in the local labor pool. In other words, Acme Global used ______.
A. global staffing
B. sourcing
C. boundaryless staffing
D. outsourcing
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______ issues arise from policies that favor the migration of skilled workers.
A. Technology
B. Irreversible process
C. Brain drain
D. Constituency
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______ is characterized by growing worldwide connections between organizations and their various constituencies, by rapid and discontinuous change, by growing numbers and diversity of actors involved in global activities, and by greater managerial complexity.
A. Globalization
B. Complexity
C. Technology
D. Transition
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How is the job change associated with repatriation of an expatriate different from the job change of a domestic worker?
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Describe the relationship between expatriate adjustment to the foreign assignment and job performance by the expatriate.
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Discuss the different ways the success of expatriates in foreign assignments has been measured.
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Discuss the main factors that impact the staffing strategy of multinational organizations?
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Describe the four staffing strategies of multinational organizations that involve the use of expatriates.
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A career perception in which individuals view their careers with a subjective sense of where one is going in ones work life is referred to as a ______ career.
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At the ______ stage of the cycle of adjustment to the foreign environment, the expatriate can function in the new culture almost as well as at home.
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At the ______ stage of the cycle of adjustment to the foreign environment, the expatriate begins to understand cultural differences, learns the ways to get things done, and begins to settle into the rhythm of daily living in the foreign country.
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In the ______ stage of the cycle of adjustment to the foreign environment, everything is new, exciting, and interesting and the new environment intrigues the expatriate in much the same way as if the expatriate was a tourist.
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The ______ staffing strategy of multinational organizations involves using a mix of nationalities within regions.
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The ______ staffing strategy of multinational organizations involves using mostly home country managers.
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The ______ staffing strategy of multinational organizations involves using local foreign managers only.
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______ is used to describe both the experience of firms with staffing with expatriates and the experience of these employees with an overseas assignment.
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Multicultural experience has been found to enhance individual creativity and even results in higher promotion rates and enhanced professional reputations.
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Management development may be a key reason that an individual is sent on an overseas assignment, and personal development is an often reported outcome of overseas experience.
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For most expatriates the repatriate experience is qualitatively different from the expatriate experience.
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Repatriation is a simple process. As workers return home, they easily readjust to their former lives.
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Whether an overseas assignment is viewed as a success or failure can be measured in three primary ways: turnover, adjustment, and task performance.
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Early studies found that the motives of people from the United States for accepting an assignment were (a) a sense of vocation, (b) financial rewards, and (c) the desire to escape undesirable circumstances at home.
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An influential study of why firms might fill an overseas position with an expatriate suggested that firms transferred personnel internationally for one of three reasons: to fill a technical requirement, to develop the manager, or to develop the organization.
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A geocentric staffing strategy of multinational organizations involves using a mix of nationalities within regions.
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A geocentric staffing strategy of multinational organizations involves using a mix of nationalities at home and abroad.
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An ethnocentric staffing strategy of multinational organizations involves using home country managers predominately.
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An ethnocentric staffing strategy of multinational organizations involves using local foreign managers only.
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Managers on temporary assignments overseas continue to play a very important role in managing todays global organizations.
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The effect of an overseas assignment on the longer term career of managers depends in part on how a person views his or her career. From a traditional move up the career ladder perspective, expatriate assignments ______.
A. have little effect
B. do not seem to have positive effects
C. create huge gains in career advancement
D. most often have negative effects
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While individuals recognize that a foreign assignment may not have a positive effect on their career, they accept it because they view the experience as ______.
A. positive for their personal and professional development
B. a way to make money
C. being a team player
D. necessary for their next promotion
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Unlike the domestic job changer, the ______ is likely to be confronted with individual and home country changes simultaneously.
A. repatriate
B. foreigner
C. third country national
D. host country national
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Reentry to ones home country after an expatriate assignment is referred to as ______.
A. honeymoon
B. culture shock
C. repatriation
D. retrieval
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The logic behind the effect of social support on the expatriate experience is that being able to draw on social relationships provides a mechanism for dealing with the ______ associated with an overseas assignment.
A. language
B. stress
C. tax implications
D. culture
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The extent to which the host country culture is ______ from the expatriates home culture is typically thought to make the adjustment process more difficult.
A. different
B. closely related
C. similar
D. predictable
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Reviews of cross-cultural training for expatriates find that training is positively related to all of the following EXCEPT:
A. self-development (self-oriented skills, perceptual skills, and relational skills)
B. adjustment
C. length of assignment
D. relationships with host nationals
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Which of the following was NOT identified as one of the main reasons organizations would hesitate to send women on an expatriate assignments?
A. Foreigners prejudice against women
B. Dual careers
C. Lack of language fluency
D. Selection bias