Cross Culture Management (Test 2)

What is transnational?

• extending or operating across national boundaries

• limited to or in the interests of a particular nation

• strictly national policy

• Border-less country for an organization

Sony believes that US local citizens are the best qualified for the job, as opposed to Japanese managers, because they already have a working knowledge of the language and culture, and it may be difficult for Sony to understand pre- ferred styles otherwise.

• Ethnocentric approach

• Polycentric approach

• Geocentric approach

• Global approach

A business which believes that a success story in one country can translate to all other countries in which it operates is …..

• Polycentricity

• Ethnocentricity

• Geocentricity

• Egocentricity

Direct opposite of ethnocentrism

• Egocentric

• Polycentric

• Geocentric

The organization views diversity positively and encourages diversity awareness, but it probably unable to cope with any problems which diversity may cause

• Diversity Blindness

• Diversity hostility

• Diversity naivete

• Diversity Integration

Decision making is decentralised and key personnel need to be recruited from the nation being targeted is a feature of …..

• Polycentric

• Geocentric

• Ethnocentric

To some extent, this approach ignores local customs, culture and religion.

• Geocentricity

• Ethnocentricity

• Polycentricity

• Egocentricity

• Geocentric

• Polycentric

• Ethnocentric

• Neocentric

Decision making is centralised and key personnel from headquarters are sent to oversee operations in other countries. This is a feature of …..

• Polycentric

• Geocentric

• Ethnocentric

A firm following a geocentric approach to staffing will pursue a system

• A) in which all key management positions are filled by parent company nationals

• B) in which host-country nationals are recruited to manage subsidiaries while parent-company nationals occupy key positions at corporate headquarters

• C) in which the best people, regardless of nationality, are recruited to fill key positions throughout the organization

• D) in which corporate bureaucracy overwhelms the system leaving key positions to be filled in a haphazard manner