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IBC201

Student Name: Trần Trúc Mai

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Lecture Nguyễn Thị Thới

Submission date 11/02/2023

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Complete 30 questions to gain 10 marks. Choose HIGHLIGT the right answers.

1. ____ can be defined as acquired knowledge that people use to interpret experience and generate social
behavior.
A) Edification
B) Culture
C) Symbol
D) Cognition
E) Value
2. When depicting cultural diversity through visually separating its components by using concentric
circles, the inner circle:
A) contains the norms, beliefs, dimensions, and values of society.
B) contains the implicit, basic assumptions that govern behavior.
C) consists of language and art.
D) consists of food and buildings.
E) All of the above
3. Which of the following is a characteristic of culture?
A) Culture is biologically based.
B) Culture is specific to each individual.
C) Culture has structure.
D) Culture is noncumulative.
E) None of the above
4. Which of the following dimensions measures the freedom to satisfy one's natural needs and desires
within a society?
A) Achievement versus ascription
B) Specific versus diffuse
C) Indulgence versus restraint
D) Universalism versus particularism
E) None of the above
5. Nations that are collectivist in their approach tend to be characterized by:
A) large power distance and low individualism.
B) low power distance and high individualism.
C) small power distance and weak uncertainty avoidance.
D) large power distance and weak uncertainty avoidance.
E) large power distance and strong uncertainty avoidance.

5. A company with a(n) _____ predisposition tries to integrate a global systems approach to decision
making.
A) ethnocentric
B) polycentric
C) geocentric
D) regiocentric
E) glocentric

6. Firms with a(n) _____ predisposition make strategic decisions tailored to suit the cultures of the
countries where the MNC operates.
A) polycentric
B) ethnocentric
C) geocentric
D) regiocentric
E) glocentric
7. _____ is a belief that one worldwide approach to doing business is the key to both efficiency and
effectiveness.
A) International complacency
B) Globalization imperative
C) Worldwide indifference
D) Cross-cultural contentment
E) None of the above

8. Which of the following is a factor that is moving companies to facilitate the development of unique
strategies for different cultures?
A) The lack of diversity of worldwide industry standards
B) A continual demand by local customers for differentiated products
C) The importance of being an outsider
D) The need to restrain subsidiaries from using their own abilities and talents
E) None of the above
9. Rules that dictate the dos and don'ts of employee behavior relating to areas such as productivity,
customer relations, and intergroup cooperation are characteristics associated with an organization's _____.
A) ethics
B) ambience
C) culture
D) structure
E) values
10. Which of the following types of organizational cultures can be considered a fulfillment-oriented
culture?
A) The family culture
B) The Eiffel Tower culture
C) The guided missile culture
D) The incubator culture
E) The carrot stick culture
11. _____ is a pattern of shared basic assumptions that a group learns as it solves its problems of external
adaptation and internal integration, and that has worked well enough to be considered valid and,
therefore, is taught to new members as the correct way to perceive, think, and feel in relation to these
problems.
A) Organizational culture
B) Organizational learning
C) Organizational change
D) Organizational structure
E) Organizational value
12.The _____ culture is characterized by a strong emphasis on hierarchy and orientation to the task.
A) The family culture
B) The Eiffel Tower culture
C) The guided missile culture
D) The incubator culture
E) The cash cow culture

13.Which of the following describes the ways of thinking and learning in the guided missile culture?
A) Process-oriented, creative, ad hoc, and inspirational
B) Problem centered, professional, practical, and cross-disciplinary
C) Logical, analytical, vertical, and rationally efficient
D) Intuitive, holistic, lateral, and error correcting
E) None of the above
14. Most research in international human resource management has been _____.
A) context-oriented
B) content-oriented
C) procedure-oriented
D) process-oriented
E) none of the above
15. Which of the following is a content theory of work motivation?
A) The hierarchy-of-needs theory
B) The goal-setting theory
C) The expectancy theory
D) The equity theory
E) The motivation theory

16.Which of the following needs is correctly matched with its descriptions?

A) Physiological needs are basic needs such as food, clothing, shelter.
B) Safety needs consist of the needs for power and status.
C) Social needs are the desires to reach one's full potential by becoming everything one is capable of
becoming.
D) Self-actualization needs are the desires for security, stability, and the absence of pain.
E) None of the above
17. Researchers like Hofstede recommend that multinational companies (MNCs) should focus on giving
_____ to their lower-level personnel in different countries.
A) physical rewards
B) autonomous roles
C) honest feedback
D) challenging tasks
E) all of the above
18. Which of the following factors would be classified as a motivator as per Herzberg's two-factor theory
of motivation?
A) Interpersonal relations
B) Working conditions
C) Career advancement
D) Company policies
E) All of the above
19. This manager believes that if people are committed to their goals, they will exercise self-direction and
self-control.
A) Theory X
B) Theory Y
C) Theory Z
D) Theory A
E) Theory B
20. The focus of attention of this leadership style usually is on work progress, work procedures, and
roadblocks that are preventing goal attainment.
A) Participative
B) Authoritarian
C) Paternalistic
D) Laissez-faire
E) None of the above
21. _____ leaders typically encourage their people to play an active role in assuming control of their
work, and authority usually is highly decentralized.
A) Suppressive
B) Autocratic
C) Participative
D) Team-oriented
E) None of the above
22. These leaders expect everyone to work hard; in turn, the employees are guaranteed employment and
given security benefits such as medical and retirement programs.
A) Participative
B) Paternalistic
C) Autocratic
D) Authoritarian
E) None of the above
23. There are four basic sources that multinational companies (MNCs) can tap for positions. These are:
A) host-country nationals, third-country nationals, United Nations placements, and International
Monetary Fund (IMF) placements.
B) home-country nationals, International Monetary Fund (IMF) placements, inpatriates, and
multipatriates.
C) home-country nationals, host-country nationals, International Monetary Fund (IMF) placements,
and multipatriates.
D) home-country nationals, host-country nationals, third-country nationals, and inpatriates.
E) None of the above
24. Which of the following statements is true about host-country nationals?
A) One of the most common reasons why multinational corporations (MNCs) use host-country
nationals is for starting up operations.
B) Historically, multinational corporations (MNCs) have staffed key positions in their foreign
affiliates with host-country nationals.
C) Multinational corporations (MNCs) use them at the middle- and lower-level ranks because many
countries expect the MNC to hire local talent.
D) They are individuals from a host country who are assigned by a multinational corporation (MNC)
to work in the home country.
E) All of the above.
25. Borstorff and her associates examined a number of factors associated with employee willingness to
work overseas and concluded that:
A) unmarried employees are least willing than any other group to accept expat assignments.
B) employee and spouse perceptions of organizational support for expatriates are critical to
employee willingness to work overseas.
C) married couples with children at home or those with teenage children are probably the most
willing to move.
D) individuals most committed to their professional careers and to their employing organizations are
prone to be less willing to work as expatriates.
E) None of the above.
26. The two most common selection procedures used by multinational corporations (MNCs) are _____.
A) assessment centers and tests
B) references and interviews
C) application forms and assessment centers
D) tests and interviews
E) tests and references
27. Expatriate salaries typically are set according to the base pay of:
A) an index of firms maintained by the United Nations.
B) the home country.
C) the host-country.
D) a neutral third-country determined by the expatriate and his/her company.
E) depending on individual companies' policies.
28. The five criteria in the acronym HAIRL stood for _____.
A) helicopter, analysis, imagination, reality, and leadership
B) hierarchy, awareness, ingenuity, reverie, and leadership
C) helicopter, action, interest, reality, and leadership
D) hierarchy, action, ingenuity, reverie, and leadership
29. A partially completed contingency matrix for international human resource management shows that
recruitment and selection processes in Mexico should _____.
A. encourage use of sophisticated selection procedures based on recent public policy shifts
B. use expatriates sparingly and 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
30. A partially completed contingency matrix for international human resource management for labor
relations shows that firms doing business in China should _____.
A) treat unions as partners and allow time for negotiations
B) tap the large pool of labor in cities and be prepared that lax labor laws may become more
stringent
C) understand changing Chinese labor law and prepare for increasing unionization of labor
D) be prepared for high wages and short workweek and expect high productivity from unionized
workers