Exam 17: Leadership, Organization, and Corporate Social Responsibility

Primary stockholders include top management, employees, customers, media, and persons holding stock in the company.

The universal concerns for global companies established by the United Nations Global Compact consist of the following three dimensions:

Marjorie Scardino is chief executive of:

During his years as chief executive of GE, Jack Welch discovered that many employees resisted his ideas about the need to globalize the company.

A company with headquarters in Europe and operational units in Canada, the United States, and Mexico would be well advised to consider establishing a(n):

McDonald's organizational design integrates the international division and geographical structures with McDonald's U.S.having five geographical operating divisions, and McDonald's International having four.

In the long run, an organization derives its global competitiveness from its ability to bring high-quality, low-cost products to market faster than its competitors.

Which of the following is the best organization structure for global marketing?

Timberland Company unveiled a "nutritional label" on its footwear boxes as a means of communicating its corporate social responsibility commitment to consumers.

A major disadvantage of a regional center is its cost.

Which of the following does not contribute to the establishment of an international division?

According to Prahalad and Hamel, a core competence has all of the following characteristics except:

Toyota Production system (TPS), as the Japanese company's manufacturing methods are known, achieves efficiencies by following a lean production system.

As markets globalize, and as Japan opens its own market to more competition from overseas, more Japanese companies are likely to break from traditional organization patterns.

At Whirlpool, North American operations are organized in matrix form.What is the key to successful matrix management?

The differences between lean producers and U.S.mass producers in the way they deal with their respective dealers, distributors, and customers are as dramatic as the differences in the way they deal with their suppliers.

According to David Whitwam, former CEO of Whirlpool, one must create an organization whose people are:

Unilever Group Chief Executive Patrick Cescau wanted to reconnect the company with its heritage of sustainability and concern for the environment.This and other values reflect Unilever's philosophy of "doing well by doing good."

In contrast to the lean producers, U.S.mass producers typically maintain operations that involve all of the following except:

Management writers often use terms like silos, stovepipes, or chimneys to describe an organization in whichautonomous business units operate with their own agendas and a minimum of horizontal interdependence.