Exam 5: Global Management and Cultural Diversity

Members of monochronic cultures are more flexible in their views of time than those of polychronic cultures.

Ronald is planning to expand his family business internationally and is currently in the process of purchasing materials, manufacturing components, and locating business services around the world. Which of the following best describes his actions?

The goal of most tariffs is to:

Cultural awareness is an important characteristic of a truly global manager.

A _____ is an MNE that operates worldwide on a borderless basis.

Vincent Melville, a successful artist, lives and works in Paris. He does not travel much. Like many of his peers, he too has declined multiple offers to teach in famous schools of art outside Paris. He does not prefer change and likes predictability, order, and structure in his life. Vincent Melville displays traits of being a member of a _____ culture.

In a _____ culture, people guide their behavior according to expectations set by prevailing social norms.

Ray is currently writing his doctoral thesis, which is a comparative study on the use and treatment of physical space in communication between people across cultures. His thesis is a study on _____.

In _____ cultures, what is actually said or written may convey only part, and sometimes a very small part, of the real message.

_____ is a shared set of beliefs, values, and patterns of behavior common to a group of people.

_____ is the degree to which a society tolerates risk and change.

Which of the following is true about loose cultures?

Which of the following is true about people in high-power-distance cultures?

Which of the following expressions points toward a high masculine score?

_____ are taxes governments levy on imports from abroad.

Which of the following is an example of child labor?

An American executive goes to Yemen to finalize a business deal. He hands over his documents to his Yemeni host with his left hand, which Muslims in Yemen consider unclean. Moreover, he refuses to accept the dry fruits that he is offered, a behavior that deeply offends his host. As a result, the American loses the business deal to his Australian counterpart who was better versed in Yemeni ways. The lack of understanding of _____ is most likely to have resulted in the loss of business for the American executive.

What do you mean by intercultural competencies? What are the different pillars of intercultural competencies?

Veronica has been recruited as a human resource manager in a firm based in China. She soon realizes that the work culture at her new office is entirely different from that of her previous firm, which was based in the U.S. In her new office, she could not question an order passed by a higher authority. What kind of a culture is Veronica facing in her new office?

People in high-power-distance cultures tend to be tolerant of power and are prone to follow orders.