cultural communication in business

What is ethnocentric?

• A global mindset where the manager is able to understand a business or market without regard to country boundaries.

• A host-country mindset where the manager develops a greater affinity with the country in which she or he conducts business.

• How people from differing cultural backgrounds communicate

• Using our own culture as the standard for judging other cultures.

Home company employees fill all key positions/manage overseas subsidiaries is refers to.....

• Ethnocentric

• Polycentric

• Geocentric

• Matrix reload

The right person from the job selected regardless of nationality can be classified as

• Ethnocentric

• Polycentric

• Geocentric

• Matrix reload

A key barrier to good cross-cultural relations is ____________, the assumption that the ways of ones culture are the best ways of doing things.

• ethnocentric

• polycentric

• geocentric

• domestication

After successfully completing a training program in understanding __________________, Mae Lew, a Korean American worker, tactfully confronts her American supervisor who constantly ignores her suggestions in team meetings.

• ethnocentric

• discrimination

• geocentric

• none of the above

The country where the headquarters of a multinational company is located is known as

• Home country

• Host country

• Third country

• None of the above

When the firms adopt a strategy of limiting recruitment to the nationalities of the host country where the branch is located, it is called

• Home country

• Host country

• Third country

• None of the above

When the firms choose a strategy of recruiting the most suitable persons for the positions available in the firm, irrespective of their nationalities, it is called

• ethnocentric orientation

• polycentric orientation

• geocentric orientation

• none of the above

the country in which the multinational firm has its headquarters.

• host country

• parent country

• third country

• none of the above

aside from OK this sign also mean..in russia.

• money

• insult

• zero

• homosexsual