Cross Cultural Management - Week 1

______ involves the representation of the world as a single place, the intersecting of the interests of business, and society or an increase in the impact of forces that span national boundaries.

• A. Culture

• B. Environment

• C. Globalization

• D. Interconnections

The ______ among countries were dramatically increased with the advent of free trade areas in the 1990s.

• A. multinational corporations

• B. economic interconnections

• C. organizational boundaries

• D. economic turmoil

All of the following are changes that affect the stability of the work environment within organizations EXCEPT:

• A. downsizing

• B. privatization

• C. economic interconnections

• D. team-based management

______ enables formerly government-controlled enterprises to be available for purchase by foreign firms, thus reducing boundaries.

• A. Privatization

• B. Team-based management

• C. Downsizing

• D. Productivity

Organizations around the globe are increasingly looking toward the formation of teams of workers as a solution to ______ problems.

• A. team-based management

• B. productivity

• C. privatization

• D. downsizing

Dramatic advances in ______ might be the most significant force toward globalization.

• A. productivity

• B. international migration

• C. privatization

• D. information technology

One key result of ______ is that global managers face an external environment far more complex, more dynamic, more uncertain, and more competitive than ever before.

• A. team-based management

• B. telecommunications

• C. trade liberalization

• D. globalization

All of the following are elements of the global manager’s environment EXCEPT:

• A. cultural

• B. economic

• C. legal

• D. conceptual

______ are the structures and processes by which a nation integrates the parts of society into a functioning unit.

• A. Political systems

• B. Legal systems

• C. Economic systems

• D. Interpersonal interactions

Sophia seeks to learn both the explicit organizational rules and procedures of her organization and the implicit rules about “how we do things around here.” Sophia seeks to understand the organization’s ______.

• A. role set

• B. society

• C. norms

• D. law