Assignment
Question 1
Culture affects how people:
Dress.
Speak to other people.
Live their lives.
Think and behave.
Question 2
Acquired knowledge that people use to interpret experience and generate social behavior is termed?
Adaptive.
Patterned.
Culture.
Transgenerational.
Question 3
Values are:
Unimportant in the scope of international business.
Based on one's educational level.
Basic convictions that people have regarding what is right and wrong, good and bad, and important and unimportant.
Based on one's home life.
Question 4
Power Distance is:
The extent to which less powerful members of institutions and organizations accept that power is distributed unequally.
The distance between you and the person in charge of what you do for a business.
How long it takes you to make a decision in your company.
An unimportant cultural dimension.
Question 5
Common personal values for Indian managers include all but one of the following items:
High moral orientation.
Strong achievement.
High humanistic orientation.
Strong focus on organization compliance and competence.
Question 6
Which one item below is not a similarity for Organizational Behavior Modification (O.B.Mod.) for U.S. companies?
As organizational size increases; commitment declines;
As structure became more employee focused, commitment increases;
All employees are the same;
The more positive the perceptions of organizational climate, the greater the employee commitment.
Question 7
If a person has an Ethnocentric predisposition, they:
Have a nationalistic philosophy of management whereby the values and interests of the parent company guide strategic decisions.
Have a view that all groups are superior to their own group.
Have a way to help all ethnographic groups feel important and needed no matter what the situation.
Manage their companies in a way that allows all cultures to accept their products.
Question 8
A Polycentric predisposition means:
That Polynesians work more effectively in the companies than other people from other
cultures.
Individuals have a philosophy of management whereby strategic decisions are tailored to suit the cultures of the countries where the MNC operates.
Individuals have a way to look at multiple issues and make the same decision no matter what country they are working in.
That people from more than two races are able to function better in international businesses.
Question 9
A philosophy of management in which a firm blends its own interests with those of its subsidiaries on a regional basis is called a __________ predisposition.
Regiocentric.
Ethnocentric.
Polycentric.
Geocentric.
Question 10
Simplification is:
The process of exhibiting the same orientation toward different cultural groups.
The process of eliminating all cultural differences when people work for the company.
The process of allowing all cultures to participate in the decision making process for a company.
The process of managing based on profit systems and not allowing any cultural differences to be involved.
Question 11
How did project GLOBE build on and extend Hofstede's analysis? What unique contributions are associated with project GLOBE?
Question 12
What are some categories of cultural differences that help make one country or region of the world different from another? In each case, describe the value or norm, and explain how it would result in different behavior in two or more countries. If you like, use the countries in this chapter as your point of reference.
Your response should be 200 words.