BUS 321 FINAL EXAM PRACTICE QUESTIONS WITH
VERIFIED ANSWERS
This international staffing model emphasizes the use of HCNs - Answers - polycentric
If the firms global strategy involves exploiting new technologies developed in the home
market, this type of manager is often best suited to graft those innovations to a host-
county setting. - Answers - parent-country nationals
This is the correct order in the phases of acculturation. - Answers - honeymoon,
disillusionment, adaptation, biculturalism
To staff their international operations, firms can choose from these three groups -
Answers - Third-country nationals, host-country nationals, parent-country nationals
Centralization and decentralization have to do with what part of the international firm's
operations? - Answers - Decision making
What was cited as the primary reason for expatriates' failure? - Answers - Difficulty in
adapting to the foreign culture
This staffing model is based on the assumption that home office perspectives should
take precedence. - Answers - ethnocentric
This type of international organization favors a centralized form of decision making. -
Answers - Multinational
Firms that rely on these two staffing models must develop more resources to selecting
and training PCNs and TCNs for foreign assignments. - Answers - ethnocentric and
geocentric
This was cited as the best way to reduce repatriation and expatriate failure problems. -
Answers - Provide organizational career development programs
This type of expatriate is generally used to fill middle-level and lower-level jobs along
with some managerial and professional positions. - Answers - host-country national
Firms using this type of staffing model put PCNs, HCNs, and TCNs on equal footing. -
Answers - Geocentric
Most important for job attitude? - Answers - job satisfaction
, This model of motivation is concerned with the conscious thought process a worker
uses to select a behavior. - Answers - reinforcement model of motivation
These are the Big Five personality traits. - Answers - Emotional stability, agreeableness,
conscientiousness, extroversion, openness
This model of decision making suggests that managers apply logic and rationality in
making the best decisions. - Answers - normative model of decision making
This process based theory of motivation is based on the belief that a workers behaviors
are motivated by the expected outcomes of the behaviors. - Answers - Expectancy
theory
Workers from a culture with these two traits are more likely to have an internal locus of
control. - Answers - Individualistic & power-tolerant
People from cultures with these traits seem to foster the needs for achievement and
power more than the need for affiliation. - Answers - Individualistic, power-tolerant,
uncertainty-accepting
This needs-based theory of motivation suggests that supervision contributed to US
workers job dissatisfaction, but contributed to job satisfaction in New Zealand. -
Answers - Herzberg's two factor theory
These are complexes of beliefs and feelings that people have about specific ideas,
situations, or other people. - Answers - attitudes
This descriptive model of decision making suggests that decision makers are
constrained in their ability to be objective and rational by limitations of the human mind.
- Answers - Bounded rationality
Name the five basic needs of Maslow's hierarchy of needs. - Answers - physiological,
security, social, self-esteem, and self-actualization
The Big 5 personality trait measures whether one is organized, systematic, responsible,
and self-disciplined. - Answers - conscientiousness
MNCs typically adopt one of which three managerial philosophies? - Answers -
ethnocentric, polycentric, geocentric
A company that adopts this type of international organization design may use both the
global product design and the global matrix design to succeed. - Answers - Global
hybrid design
VERIFIED ANSWERS
This international staffing model emphasizes the use of HCNs - Answers - polycentric
If the firms global strategy involves exploiting new technologies developed in the home
market, this type of manager is often best suited to graft those innovations to a host-
county setting. - Answers - parent-country nationals
This is the correct order in the phases of acculturation. - Answers - honeymoon,
disillusionment, adaptation, biculturalism
To staff their international operations, firms can choose from these three groups -
Answers - Third-country nationals, host-country nationals, parent-country nationals
Centralization and decentralization have to do with what part of the international firm's
operations? - Answers - Decision making
What was cited as the primary reason for expatriates' failure? - Answers - Difficulty in
adapting to the foreign culture
This staffing model is based on the assumption that home office perspectives should
take precedence. - Answers - ethnocentric
This type of international organization favors a centralized form of decision making. -
Answers - Multinational
Firms that rely on these two staffing models must develop more resources to selecting
and training PCNs and TCNs for foreign assignments. - Answers - ethnocentric and
geocentric
This was cited as the best way to reduce repatriation and expatriate failure problems. -
Answers - Provide organizational career development programs
This type of expatriate is generally used to fill middle-level and lower-level jobs along
with some managerial and professional positions. - Answers - host-country national
Firms using this type of staffing model put PCNs, HCNs, and TCNs on equal footing. -
Answers - Geocentric
Most important for job attitude? - Answers - job satisfaction
, This model of motivation is concerned with the conscious thought process a worker
uses to select a behavior. - Answers - reinforcement model of motivation
These are the Big Five personality traits. - Answers - Emotional stability, agreeableness,
conscientiousness, extroversion, openness
This model of decision making suggests that managers apply logic and rationality in
making the best decisions. - Answers - normative model of decision making
This process based theory of motivation is based on the belief that a workers behaviors
are motivated by the expected outcomes of the behaviors. - Answers - Expectancy
theory
Workers from a culture with these two traits are more likely to have an internal locus of
control. - Answers - Individualistic & power-tolerant
People from cultures with these traits seem to foster the needs for achievement and
power more than the need for affiliation. - Answers - Individualistic, power-tolerant,
uncertainty-accepting
This needs-based theory of motivation suggests that supervision contributed to US
workers job dissatisfaction, but contributed to job satisfaction in New Zealand. -
Answers - Herzberg's two factor theory
These are complexes of beliefs and feelings that people have about specific ideas,
situations, or other people. - Answers - attitudes
This descriptive model of decision making suggests that decision makers are
constrained in their ability to be objective and rational by limitations of the human mind.
- Answers - Bounded rationality
Name the five basic needs of Maslow's hierarchy of needs. - Answers - physiological,
security, social, self-esteem, and self-actualization
The Big 5 personality trait measures whether one is organized, systematic, responsible,
and self-disciplined. - Answers - conscientiousness
MNCs typically adopt one of which three managerial philosophies? - Answers -
ethnocentric, polycentric, geocentric
A company that adopts this type of international organization design may use both the
global product design and the global matrix design to succeed. - Answers - Global
hybrid design
