Exam 15: Leadership and Employee Behavior in International Business

What behavioral process suggests that managers sometimes adopt the first minimally acceptable alternative they identify, when a further search might suggest an even better alternative?

What are secondary needs? Why is it important for international managers to understand the secondary needs of employees from multiple cultures?

________ is the overall set of forces that causes people to choose certain behaviors from a set of available behaviors.

Locus of control ________.

Agreeableness refers to a person's ability to get along with others.

What personality trait refers to one's comfort level with relationships?

Hofstede's cultural dimensions can be classified as a need-based model of motivation.

What is job satisfaction? What factors influence an individual's level of job satisfaction? How might a manager with leadership skills influence a subordinate's job satisfaction?

Maslow's hierarchy of needs is relevant in all cultures.

What are the need levels in Maslow's hierarchy of needs? What role do these needs play in international management? How does an employee's location or culture affect the hierarchy of needs?

Which term refers to the extent to which an individual is gratified by or fulfilled in his or her work?

In a study of stress among executives from 10 countries, executives from ________ experienced difficulties managing their stress.

Which theory suggests that motivational needs can be taught to people in different cultures?

Which of the following personality traits describes a person who is poised, calm, and secure?

Which of the following refers to what an individual must have or wants to have?

Things that people require in order to survive, such as food, are called ________.

Which term refers to complexes of beliefs and feelings that people have about specific ideas, situations, or other people?

Authoritarianism ________.

Because stress is a physiological response, all humans experience the same forms of stress and handle that stress in the same ways.

Herzberg's two-factor theory suggests that different factors affect satisfaction and dissatisfaction.