International Organizational Behavior
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International Organizational Behavior explores the dynamics of behavior within organizations operating across diverse cultural, economic, and regulatory environments. The course examines how global trends, cross-cultural interactions, leadership styles, communication, motivation, and team dynamics influence organizational effectiveness in multinational settings. Students analyze case studies and apply theoretical frameworks to understand how cultural differences and international contexts shape workplace practices, decision-making, conflict resolution, and ethical considerations. Through collaborative projects and practical applications, learners develop skills vital for managing and thriving in the complex, interconnected landscape of global organizations.
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International Management Culture Strategy and Behavior 9th Edition by Fred Luthans
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Chapter 1: Globalization and International Linkages
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Q1) Identify the statement false of China's economic condition.
A)China's GDP has remained strong, growing at 9.1 percent in 2009
B)In 2012, China's GDP was 8 percent, despite the global economic crisis
C)Trade relations between China and developed countries and regions, such as the United States and the EU, are lax
D)Many believe that the value of the Chinese currency is kept artificially low, giving China an unfair advantage in selling exports
Answer: C
Q2) The following are characteristics of the BRIC economies except:
A)Demand for higher priced goods is expected to continue to be low in the future
B)The BRIC economies share of world growth is expected to rise to about 40 percent by 2025
C)Per capita income in the BRIC countries is rising
D)Demand for basic goods will be strong
Answer: A
Q3) Marketers must be responsive to social networks.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
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Chapter 2: The Political, Legal, and Technological Environment
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Q1) Political repression and denial of rights and civil liberties are dominant ideals of:
A)Totalitarianism
B)Socialist democracy
C)Collectivism
D)Monarchy
Answer: A
Q2) Before he was overthrown, Mubarak of Egypt had been one of the most powerful leaders in the region for 30 years.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q3) _____ has placed pressure on MNCs to outsource production.
A)Mounting cost pressure and profit expectations
B)Lack of cheap and expert labor
C)Global and Internal competition
D)Profit expectation by governments
Answer: A
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Chapter 3: Ethics, Social Responsibility, and Sustainability
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Q1) Kantian philosophical traditions focus on core, individual behaviors and actions and how they express and form individual character.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q2) The United Nations chapter dedicated to the education, promotion, facilitation and advocacy of sustainable practices and environmentally sound concerns is called the:
A)UNRWA
B)UNIFEM
C)UNODC
D)UNEP
Answer: D
Q3) Corporate social responsibility includes organizational actions that go beyond the requirements of the law and the direct interests of the firm.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
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Chapter 4: The Meanings and Dimensions of Culture
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Q1) A major dimension in the study of culture is values.
A)True
B)False
Q2) All of the following are accurate descriptions of the main characteristics of culture except:
A)Culture is inherited or biologically based; it is not acquired by learning and experience
B)People as members of a group, organization, or society share culture; it is not specific to a single individual
C)Culture is cumulative, passed down from one generation to the next
D)Culture is based on the human capacity to symbolize or use one thing to represent another
Q3) The three completed GLOBE phases explore the various elements of the dynamic relationship between ______ and ______.
A)time; the environment
B)the culture; organizational behavior
C)physical; psychological well-being
D)political; economic systems
Q4) Discuss Hofstede's Cultural Dimensions.
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Chapter 5: Managing Across Cultures
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Q1) What guidelines should MNCs must be aware of while doing business in China?
Q2) When doing business in India, all of the following behaviors are appropriate except:
A)Being "fashionably late" for meetings
B)Avoiding personal questions unless the other individual is a friend or close associate
C)Addressing doctors or professors in accordance with their titles
D)Refraining from public displays of affection
Q3) Which of the following selections accurately reflects recruitment and selection processes in Japan?
A)Recent public policy shifts encourage use of sophisticated selection procedures
B)Use of expatriates sparingly; recruit home country nationals at U.S. colleges
C)Obtain skilled labor from government subsidized apprenticeship program
D)Prepare for a long process; ensure that your firm is "here to stay"; and develop trusting relationship with recruits
Q4) Describe the difference between parochialism and simplification.
Q5) Describe the differences between the four strategic dispositions.What is the principle advantage of each disposition?
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Chapter 6: Organizational Cultures and Diversity
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Q1) Which of the following would be associated with the dimension of pragmatic conduct?
A)To put the expertise and standards of the employing organization first
B)To put the demands and expectations of the customers first
C)To comply with clear and definite systems
D)To pursue clear aims and objectives
Q2) Hofstede's research found that the national cultural values of employees have an insignificant impact on their organizational performance, and these values are easily changed by the organization.
A)True
B)False
Q3) When individuals join a multinational corporation they bring their national culture, which greatly affects all of the following except:
A)Learned beliefs
B)Ethnicity
C)Attitudes and values
D)Behaviors
Q4) Discuss some of the potential problems associated with diversity.
Q5) What is organizational culture and what are some of its major characteristics?
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Chapter 7: Cross-Cultural and Negotiation
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Q1) The primary purpose of subordinate-initiated _____ communication is to provide feedback, ask questions or obtain assistance from higher-level management.
A)Lateral
B)Horizontal
C)Upward
D)Downward
Q2) Work hours, vacation accrual, general business practices, and human resource issues vary widely from country to country.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Written communication has been getting increased attention, because poor writing is proving to be a greater barrier than poor talking.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Communication is the process of transferring meanings from sender to receiver.
A)True
B)False
Q5) What is communication? What is the key to effective communication?
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Chapter 8: Strategy Formulation and Implementation
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Q1) The process of providing goods and services in accord with a plan of action is:
A)Strategy implementation
B)Strategy formulation
C)Strategy control
D)Strategy contingency
Q2) A worldwide strategy based on cost leadership, differentiation, and segmentation is referred to as the:
A)Economic imperative
B)Political imperative
C)Quality imperative
D)Administrative coordination strategy
Q3) These individuals are the key to stimulating profit growth within a company.
A)Supervisors
B)Middle managers
C)First-line managers
D)Top managers
Q4) International strategies are characterized by increased international standardization of products and services.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 9: Entry Strategies and Organizational Structures
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Q1) The output control in which profit responsibility is shared with product and geographic units is characteristic of a(n):
A)Global area division structure
B)International division structure
C)Matrix structure
D)Transnational network structure
Q2) In an international context, the value of centralization will vary according to:
A)The local environment and the goals of the organization
B)The global market and universal values
C)Job routinization in the host country
D)Vertical specialization and flatter designs
Q3) According to the text, all of the following types of companies are likely to adopt the international division structure except:
A)Companies with limited geographic diversity
B)Companies with a large number of executives with international expertise
C)Companies still in the developmental stage of international business
D)Companies with small international sales
Q4) What is a mixed organization structure? Are mixed organization structures gaining in popularity? If so, why?
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Chapter 10: Managing Political Risk, Government Relations, and Alliances
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Q1) Typically, terrorists target business areas or businesses that have high status or those that have great influence on initiating change.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Which of the following is not a critical business issue for successful termination of international alliances?
A)The basic decision to exit
B)People-related issues
C)Rights over sales territories and obligations to customers
D)Relations with the host government
Q3) The special nature of foreign direct investment is not related to:
A)Sector of economic activity
B)Technology sophistication
C)Pattern of ownership
D)Operations
Q4) In the context of international strategic alliances, value-claiming activities are competitive and distributive.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 11: Management Decision and Control
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Q1) Direct controls use reports and other written forms of communication to control operations.
A)True
B)False
Q2) The external control process differs from the internal control in that the external control:
A)Encourages harmony, responsiveness, and sensibility
B)Focuses on self, function, one's own group, and one's own organization
C)Proves to be uncomfortable when the environment seems out of control or changeable
D)Has a dominating attitude bordering on aggressiveness toward the environment
Q3) When the subsidiary is selling new products in growing markets, _____ decision making is more likely.
A)External
B)Decentralized
C)Centralized
D)Neutralized
Q4) What are the main factors that help influence whether decision making will be centralized or decentralized?
Q5) Explain the relevance of TQM in decision making and controlling processes.
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Chapter 12: Motivation Across Cultures
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Q1) In the two-factor motivation theory, job context variables such as salary, interpersonal relations, technical supervision, work conditions, and company policies and administration are referred to as hygiene factors.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Work-motivation theories can be broken down into two general categories, which are:
A)Method and outcome
B)Internal and external
C)Implicit and explicit
D)Content and process
Q3) In work motivation, factors controlled by the organization, such as conditions, hours, earnings, security, benefits, and promotions are referred to as:
A)Job context factors
B)Job content factors
C)Job process factors
D)Job inducement factors
Q4) What are sociotechnical job designs?
Q5) What characteristics of high achievers did David McClelland identify?
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Chapter 13: Leadership Across Cultures
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Q1) These leaders are visionary agents with a sense of mission who are capable of motivating their followers to accept new goals and new ways of doing things.
A)Transactional
B)Negotiable
C)Transformational
D)Formational
Q2) Positive organizational scholarship consists of the following subunits except:
A)Enablers
B)Motivations
C)Outcomes or effects
D)Followers
Q3) All of the following are accurate depictions of the Japanese approach to leadership except:
A)Management's concern for its employees extends to the whole life, business and social, of the worker.
B)Decision making is carried out via group decision-making techniques.
C)Employment is often for life; layoffs are rare.
D)Control mechanisms are very explicit; people know exactly what to control and how to do it.
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Chapter 14: Human Resource Selection and Development
Across Cultures
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Q1) An individual from a host-country or a third-country national who is assigned to work in the home country is a(n):
A)Expatriate
B)Multipatriate
C)Inpatriate
D)Quasi-patriate
Q2) An ethnocentric MNC puts host-office people in charge of key international management positions.
A)True
B)False
Q3) One of the reasons why there has been a decline in the number of expats in recent years is that MNCs have found that the expense can be prohibitive.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Managers who live and work outside their home country are called expatriates.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Describe what is meant by the term training.What factors influence a company's approach to training?
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