Mgt 510 final exam part 2
MGT 510 Final Exam Part 2
This final exam consists of 25 multiple-choice questions and covers the material in Chapters 11, 13, and 14.
(That is what the instructions say…but the answers may come from other chapters too J)
Question 1
Companies with a global HRM orientation
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Usually provide significant extra pay for expatriate assignments. |
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Evaluate their managers by headquarters’ country standards. |
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Focus primarily on language training as preparation for expatriate assignments. |
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Use similar pay and benefit packages for all international assignments. |
4 points
Question 2
The main objective of the balance sheet approach to international compensation is
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To match home and host county purchasing power. |
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To make sure you reward international managers for their hardship. |
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To save costs in inexpensive countries. |
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To provide headquarters’ accountants with consistent information on salaries. |
4 points
Question 3
Companies with a multi-local strategy are most likely to have a
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A global HRM orientation. |
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A polycentric HRM orientation. |
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Either a ethnocentric or regiocentric HRM orientation. |
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A geocentric orientation. |
4 points
Question 4
Home country nationals are
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Expatriate employees who come from the parent’s home country. |
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Employees who come from a different country where he/she is working. |
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Expatriate employees which come from the parent’s home country. |
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Employees from foreign country who work in the country where the host company is located. |
4 points
Question 5
International Human Resource Management
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Is no different from domestic HRM. |
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Is the application of HRM to international settings. |
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Is the orientation to hiring international employees. |
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Is the selection and compensation of expatriates. |
4 points
Question 6
Evidence on training for international assignments suggests
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Cross-cultural training reduces expatriate failure rates. |
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Cross-cultural training makes people feel more comfortable but there are no bottom line effects on performance. |
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US firms invest the most in this activity. |
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It only beneficial for long term assignments. |
4 points
Question 7
Companies with ethnocentric HRM orientations
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Use similar pay and benefit packages worldwide. |
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Select home country nationals for key positions. |
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Emphasize extensive training in the company culture before allowing a manager to go international. |
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Often use international experience as a technical qualification for high level management. |
4 points
Question 8
The process by which companies choose people to fill vacant position is
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Recruitment. |
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Compensation. |
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Selection. |
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Training and development. |
Question 9
Which of the following represents one possible solution to the “Old Friends” dirty trick?
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Ignore the ploy and focus on mutual benefits. |
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Keep a psychological distance that reflects the true nature of the relationship. |
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Walk out of negotiations. |
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Reveal when you plan to leave negotiations. |
4 points
Question 10
The sequential approach to concession-making
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Is very popular in Asian cultures. |
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Is similar to the holistic approach. |
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Implies that concession making begins only after all participants discuss all issues. |
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Implies that negotiators expect each side to give and take on individual issues in sequence. |
4 points
Question 11
Deliberate deception, one example among some common ploys in international negotiations, refers to
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Negotiators presenting flagrant untruths either in the facts they present or in their intentions for the negotiation. |
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Negotiators waiting to the last minute before the international negotiation team plans to go home. |
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Negotiators making an agreement then reveal that it must be approved by senior managers or the government. |
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One negotiator acting agreeable and friendly while his or her partner makes outrageous or unreasonable demands. |
4 points
Question 12
In competitive negotiation
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Negotiators seek out mutually satisfactory ground that is beneficial that allows both companies to win. |
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Competitive negotiators view the negotiation as a win-win game. |
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Competitive negotiators use dirty tricks and any plot that leads to their advantage. |
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Competitive negotiators search for possible win situations where the outcome of the negotiation is mutually satisfactory to both sides. |
4 points
Question 13
Olfactics
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Is the use of smells as a means of nonverbal communication. |
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Refers to communication through eye contact or gazing. |
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Communication through the use of space. |
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Communication through body contact. |
4 points
Question 14
If negotiators are using deliberate deception as a dirty tricks, the best way to deal with the deception is
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Not to make any concessions. |
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To ignore the ploy and focus on the agreement. |
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To not reveal your negotiation plans. |
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To point out directly what you believe is happening. |
4 points
Question 15
High context languages
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Are languages in which people state things directly and explicitly. |
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Include most northern European languages including German, English, and the Scandinavian languages. |
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Are languages in which people state things indirectly and implicitly. |
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Are languages where the words provide most of the meaning. |
4 points
Question 16
__________ negotiators search for possible win-win situations where the outcome of the negotiation is mutually satisfactory to both sides.
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Problem-solving |
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Concession-making |
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Competitive |
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Hard nosed |
4 points
Question 17
When applying need theories in a cross-national context, managers should
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Ignore the differences in needs between nations and apply the models uniformly. |
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Take into consideration the particular needs that people seek to satisfy in different countries. |
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Give the same magnitude of importance to work needs and apply these motivational tools. |
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Understand work centrality and then provide the same rewards to satisfy needs. |
4 points
Question 18
Social loafing
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Is the social process of sharing. |
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Occurs when people prefer to work in groups. |
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Means that everyone’s work is easier in groups. |
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Occurs when people put out less effort when working in groups. |
4 points
Question 19
The need to maximize personal achievement refers to which type of need in Maslow’s hierarchy of needs
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Physiological needs. |
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Self esteem needs. |
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Self actualization needs. |
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Security needs. |
4 points
Question 20
In a cross-national context, expectancy theory prescribes that managers
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Should specify the hierarchy of needs of workers. |
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Identify and eliminate potential sources of inequity at work. |
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Identify valued outcomes and convince workers that their efforts will lead to these outcomes. |
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Punish workers for not achieving organizational goals. |
4 points
Question 21
Esteem needs refer to
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Basic survival needs such as food, water and shelter. |
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Safety and avoidance of pain and life-threatening situations. |
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Being loved and having friendship. |
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Focus on respect and feelings of self-worth. |
4 points
Question 22
A manager gives bonuses to high performing foreign employees hoping that they will continue performing at a high level. This manager is using which motivational principle?
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Extinction |
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Goal-directed |
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Reinforcement |
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Punishment |
4 points
Question 23
Need theories of motivation are based on the assumption that
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Motivation is a function of the individual’s beliefs of what happens if one works hard. |
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Motivation is a result of the outcomes of one’s past behaviors. |
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Motivation is a function of why people work. |
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People can satisfy basic human needs in the work setting. |
4 points
Question 24
Which types of motivation theories explain motivation arising from satisfaction of needs and values combined with an individual’s beliefs regarding the work environment?
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Needs theories |
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Work centrality theories |
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Process and reinforcement theories |
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Work functions theories |
4 points
Question 25
Conclusions from the World Values Survey and the European Values Survey on functions of work reveal that
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People across the world assign the same degree of importance to work functions. |
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People across the world rate income as the most important work function. |
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People from different nations do not assign the same magnitude of importance to work functions. |
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Workers saw the most important function of work as providing contact with other people. |