Exam 5: Culture, Management Style, and Business Systems

Which of the following is the fundamental concept of U.S. corporations?

Voluntarily offered payment by someone seeking unlawful advantage is called:

Most high-context cultures operate on M-time.

The strength of a firm's backing is the key to success for both women and men in international business.

Ramon Garcia is excited about his first visit to the United States. As a representative of a Mexican vegetable producer, Ramon knows that he will have to forget "Mexican time" and be aware of "American time." As he shifts to "American time," which of the following time models will Mr. Garcia need to understand and follow if he is to be successful during his stay in America?

Business people in low-context cultures use email more often than those in high-context cultures.

Which of the following orientations (synthesis) of culture would be described by a culture that is low-context, has individualism, low power distance, and uses monochromic time?

The distinction between bribery and extortion depends on whether the activity resulted from an offer or from a demand for payment.

According to the high-context/low-context continuum identified by Edward Hall, communication in a low-context culture:

Transparency International (TI) scores countries with respect to their prevalence for bribe taking. Bribery is least tolerated in which of the following countries?

Which of the following organizations is dedicated to "curbing corruption through international and national coalitions encouraging governments to establish and implement effective laws, policies, and anticorruption programs"?

What explains the fact that group decision making predominates in Asian cultures?

As Luci Chen sits in her office in Shanghai she is looking at her daily appointment calendar. Even though she has many appointments, she knows that she will spend quality time with each person. After all, being involved with people and being sensitive to relationships is just as important (if not more important) than sticking to a schedule. Ms. Chen could be characterized following which of the following time models?

Owing to rampant prevalence across the world and because of cultural variations on its definitions, bribery is now being increasingly considered a way of business life.

Betty Roberts became an embarrassment to her company when she joked about the ruling monarchy in England before a group of visiting English businessmen and women. Betty should have known that political ridicule by a foreigner is rarely accepted. Ms. Roberts has violated what is known as a cultural:

In more collectivistic cultures, labor-management relations is adversarial.

Many international marketing companies address the Internet language problem by:

P-time is characterized by "a great involvement with people."

Time is viewed differently around the world. For example, in Spain "those who rush arrive first at the grave" is a description of feelings toward time. In which country would we expect to hear the description of time as being "time is money"?

Even though speed is relative in a cultural context, we would expect workers from which of the following countries to be so obsessed with speed (walking, accomplishing tasks, and accuracy of time pieces) that this country ranks number one in the world?