Exam 17: Leadership, Organization, and Corporate Social Responsibility

One of the forces restraining the growth of global business and global marketing is the functioning of globalization.

Before retiring at the end of 2008, 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."

What should be a leader's role in practicing corporate social responsibility (CSR)? Give examples of some firms known for initiating successful socially responsible corporate programs.

The organization design in which an employee reports to both a country manager and a functional manager is a(n):

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

Secondary stakeholders include all of the following except:

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

Which of the following has an American woman as the chief executive?

As a company's international business grows, the need for having international divisions becomes evident. Explain how an international division structure works and what factors contribute to the establishment of an international division.

In the fast changing, competitive environment, new global realities are emerging, which include all of the following needs except:

Boeing has reorganized its commercial transport design and manufacturing engineers from functional lines into a matrix organization. This new design is expected to have all of the following benefits except:

Organizations, in order to be globally successful, must be viewed as portfolio of:

In developing countries, globalization's opponents accuse companies of placing intellectual property rights ahead of human rights.

According to Carly Fiorina, former CEO of Hewlett-Packard, leadership is about:

Concepts such as "assembler value chains" and "downstream value chains" are associated with:

As a company's initial international business involvement becomes too much for a single manager or export department to handle, the next step is typically to establish a(n):

Which form of organization design is capable of integrating geographic knowledge, product knowledge, functional competencies, and customer knowledge?

Organizations vary in terms of the size and potential of targeted global markets and local management competence in different country markets. Considering different factors and facts related to the constellation of pressures, which of the following statements is not accurate?

Being socially responsible is the only the right thing to do; it can distinguish a company from its industry peers.

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