Exam 5: Managing Across Cultures

In China, the term guanxi means:

Which of the following selections accurately reflects recruitment and selection processes in Mexico?

If a U.S.manager acted the same way with a British manager as he/she does with a Chinese manager, the U.S.manager will be exhibiting a behavioral process referred to as:

Many U.S.and European multinationals find that doing business in the PRC can be a long, grueling process that often results in failure.

Russians view contracts as binding only if they continue to be mutually beneficial.

The difficulty of managing global organizations, as in the case of some local subsidiaries that want more decentralization and others that want less is one of the factors helping to facilitate the need for MNCs to develop unique strategies for different cultures.

_____ is the tendency to view the world through one's own eyes and perspectives.

An MNC with an ethnocentric predisposition:

In Japan, people often are hired based on what they can do for the firm in the short run, because many of them eventually will quit or be downsized.

All of the following are characteristics of low-context cultures except:

In some cases, both the product and the marketing message are similar worldwide; this is particularly true for high-end products.

What guidelines have to be followed by MNCs in order to tap the potential business opportunities in Russia?

Which of the following are behavioral practices that affect doing business in China?

In _____, one's social class is very important and these classes include the aristocracy, the upper bourgeoisie, the upper-middle bourgeoisie, the middle, the lower middle and the lower.

Malaysia has what is called a _____.