Managing in a Global Environment MCQs

Managing in a Global Environment MCQs

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1: The ability to adjust to the cultural practices of others is known as?

A.   Behavioral CQ

B.   Cognitive CQ

C.   Cultural Intelligence CQ

D.   Motivational CQ

2: Self-awareness and the ability to detect cultural patterns is known as?

A.   Behavioral CQ

B.   Cognitive CQ

C.   Cultural Intelligence CQ

D.   Motivational CQ

3: The ability to function and manage effectively in culturally diverse settings is known as?

A.   Behavioral CQ

B.   Cognitive CQ

C.   Cultural Intelligence CQ

D.   Motivational CQ

4: Associated with social disorganization, deviance, innovation, and openness to change is known as?

A.   Cultural Looseness

B.   Cultural Tightness

C.   Cultural Tightness-Looseness

D.   None of these

5: Associated with order and efficiency, conformity, and low rates of change is known as?

A.   Cultural Looseness

B.   Cultural Tightness

C.   Cultural Tightness-Looseness

D.   None of these

6: The strength of social norms and the level of sanctioning within societies is known as?

A.   Cultural Looseness

B.   Cultural Tightness

C.   Cultural Tightness-Looseness

D.   None of these

7: The unstated way of doing things is called culture.

A.   True

B.   False

8: The disorientation people may feel when experiencing a new cultural environment is known as Culture shock.

A.   True

B.   False

9: A person who lives inside the country in which they were born is known as Expatriate.

A.   True

B.   False

10: When a person who has citizenship in at least one country is living in another country is called Expatriation.

A.   True

B.   False

11: Globe project is a large-scale study of cultural differences, which explored differences in _____ outcomes worldwide.

A.   Culture

B.   Organizational

C.   Both a and b

D.   None of these

12: A set of individual attributes that enhance a manager’s ability to influence others who are different from them is called?

A.   Growth Mindset

B.   Fixed Mindset

C.   Global Mindset

D.   Benefit Mindset

13: The development of a global scale of _____ is known as Globalization.

A.   Communication

B.   Business

C.   Relationships

D.   All of these

14: Cultures that rely heavily on situational cues for meaning when perceiving and communicating with others is known as?

A.   High-Context Cultures

B.   Middle-Context Cultures

C.   Low-Context Cultures

D.   None of these

15: Cultures in which written and spoken words are the primary vehicles for communication are known as?

A.   High-Context Cultures

B.   Middle-Context Cultures

C.   Low-Context Cultures

D.   None of these

16: Refers to the cognitive processing necessary to recognize and understand expectations appropriate for different cultural situations is known as?

A.   Metacognitive CQ

B.   Cognitive CQ

C.   Cultural Intelligence

D.   Motivational CQ

17: Persistence and goal-setting for cross-cultural interactions is called?

A.   Metacognitive CQ

B.   Cognitive CQ

C.   Cultural Intelligence

D.   Motivational CQ

18: A corporation that has facilities and other assets in at least one country other than its home country is called?

A.   Private business Corporation

B.   Public Corporation

C.   National Corporation

D.   Multinational Corporation

19: A preliminary model of something is called Prototype.

A.   True

B.   False

20: Reentry to the organization after the expatriate assignment is called Repatriation.

A.   True

B.   False

21: The realization that time has moved on and things have not stood still while an expatriate was away from home is known as culture Shock.

A.   True

B.   False

22: People who choose to go abroad are known as?

A.   Government Initiated Expatriates

B.   Self Initiated Expatriates

C.   Family Expatriates

D.   Career Expatriates

23: Describes things repeatedly attributed to one group of people, often _____ is known as Stereotype.

A.   Unfairly

B.   Incorrectly

C.   Correctly

D.   Both a and b

24: Luis is a manager with a high ______. In his role, he works with employees from different cultures and uses his strengths and previous training to build confidence in real-life situations.

A.   repatriation

B.   context culture

C.   cultural intelligence

D.   global mindset

25: Even though Linda was managing in another country, because of her ability to ______, she was always seen as a strong expatriate manager.

A.   collaboratively negotiate

B.   focus on her own cultural strengths

C.   associate with people most like her

D.   communicate in her own language

26: Ron values his ______ and has always felt that he is a high performing employee who sees himself as an equal to his supervisor, Sally.

A.   high power distance

B.   masculinity

C.   low power distance

D.   long-term orientation

27: A ______ resource is a resource that is limited in amount.

A.   ghost

B.   underestimated

C.   missing

D.   constrained

28: ______ refers to how well managers use budgets to monitor and control operations and costs.

A.   Top-level accounting

B.   Comptrolling

C.   Fiscal templating

29: A special order is a/an ______.

A.   order of an aftermarket product

B.   recurring order that occurs on a specific schedule

C.   a backordered product

D.   one-time customer order

30: The deliberate under-estimation of revenue or exaggeration of expenses is known as ______.

A.   triple accounting

B.   revenue guesstimation

C.   budgetary slack

D.   financial chicanery

31: Which formula expresses net profit?

A.   revenue – expenses = net profit

B.   revenue + expenses = net profit

C.   revenue × expenses = net profit

D.   revenue / expenses = net profit

32: A cost center in an organization spends money while a/an ______ center makes money.

A.   impact

B.   liquid

C.   cash

D.   revenue

33: Income statements are also known as ______ or operating statements.

A.   accounting

B.   value

C.   flow

D.   profit and loss

34: A/an ______ budget challenges employees to achieve a target that is higher than predicted.

A.   challenge

B.   final

C.   extreme

D.   stretch

35: Good budgets must account for ______ and controlling.

A.   planning

B.   reversing

C.   leading

D.   timing

36: The first step in stakeholder management for an organization is stakeholder ______.

A.   prioritization

B.   survey

C.   compensation

D.   retrieval

37: ______ objectives are a reference to the portion of a financial report that shows net profit or loss.

A.   Top line

B.   Bottom line

C.   Center cut

D.   Mid-level

38: Abby has many teams that work for her. She used to find it impossible to know what each team’s goals and work processes were, until each team created their own ______ to document their overall purpose and team norms.

A.   Process measures

B.   Nominal group technique

C.   Command group

D.   Team charter

39: Nate was recently promoted and is in the process of building a project team. He knows the tasks that are assigned to his team, but Nate must also ______ in order to support his team and drive success.

A.   Provide maintenance functions

B.   Create a command group

C.   Require differentiation

D.   Avoid norming

40: Andrea is a remote worker and currently lives in Australia. Her team is ______ and lives all over the world. They communicate daily via email, skype, and videoconferencing!

A.   Pseudo

B.   Multicultural

C.   Norming

D.   Virtual

41: Sarah was in a design meeting that was not going well. Anytime a decision must be made, most of the attendees were making all the decisions and not letting anyone else offer an option that was not aligned with their views. This ______ was not allowing everyone to have a voice.

A.   Social loafing

B.   Norming

C.   Groupthink

D.   Affective reactions

42: For a team goal to be successful, it should be SMART, or specific, ______, actionable, relevant, and time-based.

A.   Measurable

B.   Monumental

C.   Manager approved

D.   Multivoting

43: Nadine is a new employee. Recently she became part of a ______ that was led by her manager. She liked this arrangement because she was able to receive a lot of information that helped her make good decisions and do good work.

A.   Pseudo-team

B.   Working group

C.   High-performance team

D.   Task force

44: Lisa is meeting with her team later to work on establishing their team roles and norms. This is the ______ stage of the five-stage model of team development.

A.   Forming

B.   Storming

C.   Norming

D.   Performing

45: Linda needed the ______ of the group in order to move forward with a decision, otherwise it could not be implemented.

A.   Consensus

B.   Storming

C.   Brainstorming

D.   Norming

46: Maryn was dreading her upcoming group assignment. Adam was on her team, and even though he was a star employee, whenever it came down to a group assignment, he experienced ______ and would always reduce the productivity of the team!

A.   Groupthink

B.   Social loafing

C.   Norming

D.   Cohesion

47: Joe was a firm believer in ______. He had a lot of success with taking groups with differing views and having them come up with their own solutions to a problem. Then the group comes together to present, debate, and defend their findings. The groups do not always come to a consensus, but useful ideas are always expressed.

A.   Groupthink

B.   Dialectical inquiry

C.   Brainstorming

D.   The nominal group technique

48: Rodney recently joined a ______ where the entire team has managerial responsibilities for their own work and control their own output.

A.   Work cycle

B.   Self-managing work team

C.   Working group

D.   Command group

49: A group of people can be considered a ______ only if they share common goals, work together, and depend on each other to achieve these long-term goals.

A.   Team

B.   Task force

C.   Work cycle

D.   Committee

50: Once Mario joined the team, he brought with him great leadership, and the ______ of the entire team changed and their performance rose.

A.   Conflict

B.   Differentiation

C.   Synergy

D.   Norms