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MGT361 Chapter 11: Role of Culture

Total questions: 18

Worksheet time: 8mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Culture is permanent; it does not change.

a)

True

b)

False

2.

Individuals with a shared culture are members of a society.

a)

True

b)

False

3.

Social structure is best defined as the _______

a)

means by which a society's members communicate with each other

b)

attitudes of MNEs towards corporate social responsibility on a global scale

c)

overall framework that determines the roles of individuals within a society

d)

behavior of and opportunities available to MNCs operating in a given society

4.

Which form of family is most emphasized in the United States?

a)

nuclear

b)

extended

c)

blended

d)

ancestral

5.

________ is the ability of individuals to move from one stratum of society to another.

a)

Social stratification

b)

Social mobility

c)

Socialization

d)

Hierarchical structure

6.

Business transactions between firms in Australia, Canada, and the United Kingdom are facilitated by a shared language.

a)

True

b)

False

7.

Spanish is the lingua franca of international business.

a)

True

b)

False

8.

Backtranslation can help a firm avoid sending the wrong message to their customers.

a)

True

b)

False

9.

In India, a person's status depends on ________.

a)

age

b)

corporate affiliation

c)

caste

d)

personal achievement

10.

In a ________ culture, a speaker's words explicitly convey the speaker's message.

a)

verbal

b)

low-context

c)

high-context

d)

linguistic

11.

Which of the following countries is considered a high-context culture?

a)

Canada

b)

Germany

c)

China

d)

England

12.

A ________ comprises countries that share many cultural similarities.

a)

value cluster

b)

cultural cluster

c)

trading bloc

d)

region

13.

Which of the following is considered to be highly individualistic?

a)

United States

b)

China

c)

Singapore

d)

Mexico

14.

________ is the cultural belief that the person comes first.

a)

Social orientation

b)

Individualism

c)

Uncertainty orientation

d)

Goal orientation

15.

According to Hofstede's Five Dimensions, ________ is the opposite of individualism.

a)

Power distance

b)

groupism

c)

collectivism

d)

goal orientation

16.

________ is the feeling people have regarding ambiguous situations.

a)

Power orientation

b)

Locus of control

c)

Optimism

d)

Uncertainty orientation

17.

________ refers to the extent to which members of a culture adopt a long-term versus a short-term outlook on work, life, and other aspects of society.

a)

Need for achievement

b)

Time orientation

c)

Power orientation

d)

Uncertainty orientation

18.

________ is the unconscious use of one's own culture to help assess new surroundings.

a)

Cultural conversion

b)

Acculturation

c)

Cross-cultural literacy

d)

Self-reference criterion