Exam 17: Leadership, organization, and Corporate Social Responsibility

Which global company has dissolved its matrix structure in order to achieve "greater speed and efficiency by further focusing and flattening the organization"?

The advantage of the mass producers lasted until the Japanese auto companies further revised the value chain and created lean production.

One of the potential drawbacks of a regional management center is that:

When Brazilian Carlos Ghosn was installed as chief executive,he introduced two new words into Nissan's lexicon:

Nokia's reversal of fortune at the hands of Apple and Google underscores the fact that today's executives must rethink the concept of the corporation if they wish to operationalize the concept of core competencies.

In a socially responsible firm,employees perform all of the following except:

In addition to "selling" their visions,top management at both Whirlpool and GE face the formidable task of building:

The U.S.mass producers focus on long-term income and return on investment,whereas Japanese see the process in terms of the short-term perspective.

According to Kenichi Ohmae's view of the world,there are 30 regions with populations ranging from 5 million to 20 million people.Based on this,China would be viewed as several distinct regions.

By the early 2000s,Sony's vaunted innovation and marketing machine was faltering due to the unanticipated rapid consumer acceptance of flat-panel wide-screen TV sets.

Being socially responsible is not only the right thing to do;it can distinguish a company from its industry peers.

In today's dynamic global competitive environment,organizations need to develop new forms of:

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

Which of the following does not belong in a list of mass production in an automobile company such as Ford?

A CEO has to look at the entire global economy and then put the company's resources where they will capture the biggest market share of every region.

Corporate social responsibility (CSR)refers to a company's obligation to pursue goals and policies that are in a company's best interest.

A major disadvantage of the regional management center is its cost.

A potential disadvantage of the organization on product basis is that the local input from individual country managers may be ignored,with the result that products will not be sufficiently tailored to local markets.

The differences between lean producers and U.S.mass producers is in the way they deal with all of the following groups except:

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