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1、self assessment03Management, 11e (Robbins/Coulter)Chapter 3 Managing in a Global Environment1) Americans tend to suffer from parochialism.Page Ref: 71Topic: Whats Your Global Perspective?Objective: 1Difficulty: EasyClassification: Conceptual2) Managers with an ethnocentric attitude do not trust fore

2、ign employees with key decisions or technology.Page Ref: 71Topic: Whats Your Global Perspective?Objective: 1Difficulty: EasyClassification: Conceptual3) Managers with a polycentric attitude tend to view every foreign operation as difficult and hard to understand.Page Ref: 72Topic: Whats Your Global

3、Perspective?Objective: 1Difficulty: EasyClassification: Conceptual4) The polycentric attitude is a world-oriented view focusing on using the best approaches and people from around the globe.Page Ref: 72Topic: Whats Your Global Perspective?Objective: 1Difficulty: EasyClassification: Conceptual5) When

4、 the twelve original members formed the European union in 1992, the primary motivation was to reassert the regions economic position against the United States and Japan.Page Ref: 72Topic: Understanding the Global EnvironmentObjective: 2Difficulty: EasyClassification: Conceptual6) Norway is a member

5、of the European Union.Page Ref: 73Topic: Understanding the Global EnvironmentObjective: 2Difficulty: EasyClassification: Conceptual7) The United States, Canada, and Mexico are parties to the North American Free Trade Association.Page Ref: 74Topic: Understanding the Global EnvironmentObjective: 2Diff

6、iculty: EasyClassification: Conceptual8) Mercosur is a trading group made up of ten South American countries.Page Ref: 75Topic: Understanding the Global EnvironmentObjective: 2Difficulty: EasyClassification: Conceptual9) A transnational organization reflects an ethnocentric attitude.Page Ref: 78Topi

7、c: Understanding the Global EnvironmentObjective: 3Difficulty: EasyClassification: Conceptual10) Managers who want to get into a global market with minimal investment start with global sourcing.Page Ref: 78Topic: Understanding the Global EnvironmentObjective: 3Difficulty: EasyClassification: Concept

8、ual11) The process of exporting involves acquiring products made abroad and selling them domestically.Page Ref: 79Topic: Understanding the Global EnvironmentObjective: 3Difficulty: EasyClassification: Conceptual12) Licensing and franchising are similar approaches involving one organization giving an

9、other organization the right to use its brand name, technology, or product specifications in return for a lump sum payment or a fee usually based on sales.Page Ref: 79Topic: Understanding the Global EnvironmentObjective: 3Difficulty: EasyClassification: Conceptual13) Licensing is primarily used by s

10、ervice organizations and franchising is primarily used by manufacturing organizations.Page Ref: 79Topic: Understanding the Global EnvironmentObjective: 3Difficulty: EasyClassification: Conceptual14) Strategic alliance is a partnership between an organization and a foreign company partner or partners

11、 in which both share resources and knowledge in developing new products or building production facilities.Page Ref: 79Topic: Understanding the Global EnvironmentObjective: 3Difficulty: EasyClassification: Conceptual15) Only when a countrys political/legal environment is unstable or revolutionary is

12、it of concern to managers.Page Ref: 80Topic: Managing in a Global EnvironmentObjective: 4Difficulty: EasyClassification: Conceptual16) Mexico is an example of a Collectivistic nation.Page Ref: 83Topic: Managing in a Global EnvironmentObjective: 4Difficulty: EasyClassification: Conceptual17) The Unit

13、ed States is an example of a country with low power distance.Page Ref: 83Topic: Managing in a Global EnvironmentObjective: 4Difficulty: EasyClassification: Conceptual18) A high uncertainty avoidance society is threatened by ambiguity and experiences high levels of anxiety.Page Ref: 83Topic: Managing

14、 in a Global EnvironmentObjective: 4Difficulty: EasyClassification: Conceptual19) The GLOBE framework for assessing cultures is similar to Hofstedes framework, but measures fewer dimensions.Page Ref: 82-83Topic: Managing in a Global EnvironmentObjective: 4Difficulty: EasyClassification: Conceptual20

15、) A global mind-set refers to attributes that allow a leader to be effective in cross-cultural environments. Page Ref: 85Topic: Managing in a Global EnvironmentObjective: 4Difficulty: EasyClassification: Conceptual21) Monolingualism is one sign that a nation suffers from _.A) parochialismB) ethnocen

16、trismC) polycentrismD) geocentrismPage Ref: 71Objective: 1Difficulty: EasyClassification: Conceptual22) Parochialism is a tendency to _.A) think highly of the foreign country in which the organization is doing businessB) focus on best approaches and people from around the globeC) view the world sole

17、ly through ones own eyes and perspectivesD) let employees in the host country figure out how best to do thingsPage Ref: 71Topic: Whats Your Global Perspective?Objective: 1Difficulty: EasyClassification: Conceptual23) Bill Sanderson, a manager in a manufacturing firm in New York has a tendency to vie

18、w the world only through his U.S.-based perspective. What can be deduced about his attitude?A) He has an elitist attitude.B) He has a polycentric attitude.C) He has a parochialistic attitude.D) He has a geocentric attitude.Page Ref: 71Topic: Whats Your Global Perspective?AACSB: Analytic SkillsObject

19、ive: 1Difficulty: ModerateClassification: Application24) An ethnocentric attitude _.A) prompts managers to have a global view and look for the best approaches and people regardless of origin.B) is the belief that the home country has the best work approaches and practicesC) is the view that employee

20、s in the host country know the best work approaches and practicesD) gives a manager a much broader understanding of what it takes to manage in a global environmentPage Ref: 71Topic: Whats Your Global Perspective?Objective: 1Difficulty: EasyClassification: Conceptual25) A manager who wishes to be suc

21、cessful in international business should avoid a(n) _ attitude.A) multiculturalB) multiracialC) ethnocentricD) geocentricPage Ref: 71Topic: Whats Your Global Perspective?Objective: 1Difficulty: ModerateClassification: Conceptual26) A(n) _ attitude is characterized by parochialism.A) geocentricB) acc

22、ulturatedC) multilinguisticD) ethnocentricPage Ref: 71Topic: Whats Your Global Perspective?Objective: 1Difficulty: EasyClassification: Conceptual27) Managers with a(n) _ attitude view every foreign operation as different and hard to understand.A) geocentricB) polycentricC) ethnocentricD) regiocentri

23、cPage Ref: 72Topic: Whats Your Global Perspective?Objective: 1Difficulty: EasyClassification: Conceptual28) A(n) _ attitude is the view that employees in the host country know the best practices for running their operations.A) ethnocentricB) polycentricC) geocentricD) regiocentricPage Ref: 72Topic:

24、Whats Your Global Perspective?Objective: 1Difficulty: EasyClassification: Conceptual29) In todays global environment, managers must have a(n) _ attitude in order to be successful.A) ethnocentricB) parochialC) bigotedD) geocentricPage Ref: 72Topic: Whats Your Global Perspective?Objective: 1Difficulty

25、: EasyClassification: Conceptual30) The _ was formed by twelve original members with the primary motivation of reasserting the regions economic position against the United States and Japan.A) African UnionB) European UnionC) Central America Free Trade AgreementD) Association of South-East Asian Nati

26、onsPage Ref: 72Topic: Understanding the Global EnvironmentObjective: 2Difficulty: EasyClassification: Conceptual31) The single European Union currency is called the _.A) kroneB) kronaC) poundD) euroPage Ref: 73Topic: Understanding the Global EnvironmentObjective: 2Difficulty: EasyClassification: Con

27、ceptual32) Which of the following countries is a member of the European Union?A) IrelandB) IcelandC) NorwayD) SwitzerlandPage Ref: 73Topic: Understanding the Global EnvironmentObjective: 2Difficulty: EasyClassification: Conceptual33) The North American Free Trade Agreement includes _.A) Mexico, Cana

28、da, and the United StatesB) Canada, Mexico, and Costa RicaC) the United States, Canada, and HondurasD) Columbia, Mexico, and the United SatesPage Ref: 74Topic: Understanding the Global EnvironmentObjective: 2Difficulty: EasyClassification: Conceptual34) Which of the following is currently under nego

29、tiation by 34 countries in the Western Hemisphere?A) African UnionB) Free Trade Area of the AmericasC) MercosurD) African CommunityPage Ref: 74Topic: Understanding the Global EnvironmentObjective: 2Difficulty: ModerateClassification: Conceptual35) The Association of Southeast Asian Nations is a trad

30、ing alliance of _.A) eight Southeast Asian nations and JapanB) eight Southeast Asian nationsC) ten Southeast Asian nationsD) ten Southeast Asian nations and ChinaPage Ref: 75Topic: Understanding the Global EnvironmentObjective: 2Difficulty: EasyClassification: Conceptual36) Which of the following is

31、 a member of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations?A) ChinaB) JapanC) South KoreaD) MyanmarPage Ref: 75Topic: Understanding the Global EnvironmentObjective: 2Difficulty: EasyClassification: Conceptual37) How many members does The African Union have?A) 78B) 53C) 64D) 49Page Ref: 76Topic: Understanding the Global En