Exam 5: Culture, Management Style, and Business Systems

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

In the committee decision setup, every committee member must be convinced of the merits of the proposition or product in question.

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

_____ involves a relatively small sum of cash, a gift, or a service that is intended to facilitate or expedite the normal, lawful performance of a duty by an official.

According to Lester Thurow, a(n) _____ form of capitalism is practiced in Japan and Germany typified by cooperation among government, management, and labor.

_____ are the business customs and expectations that must be met and conformed to or avoided if relationships are to be successful.

Cultural imperatives are business customs that are generally similar across cultures.

Adaptation requires business executives to forsake their ways and change to local customs.

Chinese cultures are high on Power Distance Index and low on Individualism/Collective Index.

The idea of wide sharing in decision making is consistent with the views that one controls one's own destiny.

Which of the following is true of adaptation in international marketing?

Which of the following is a criterion for adaptation when dealing with individuals, firms, or authorities in foreign countries?

It is not possible to obtain measures of linguistic distance for every country and every person.

Companies in _____ countries have a strong paternalistic orientation, and assume that individuals will work for one company for the majority of their lives.

In the context of business ethics, which of the following factors kept the American economy afloat at the turn of the century?

Workers in countries higher in individualism show more commitment than workers in countries with lower individualism and higher power distance.

Which of the following would most likely be characterized as being an imperative business custom in many cultures?

In _____ decision making, title or position generally takes precedence over the individual holding the job.

_____ occurs when payments are extracted under duress by someone in authority from a person seeking only what he or she is lawfully entitled to.

Academic studies of the causes and consequences of bribery, conducted by Transparency International (TI), indicate corruption is greater in: