Chapter 5:The Cultural Environment. Exam Study Guide Latest Updated 2024/2025

Chapter 5:The Cultural
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Exam Study Guide Latest Updated
2024/2025

TRUE/FALSE

1. Research studies find that culture is not learned; rather it is inherited.

ANS: F PTS: 1 DIF: Difficulty: Easy
REF: p. 118 OBJ: LO: 05-01 NAT: BUSPROG: Diversity
STA: DISC: Environmental Influence KEY: Bloom's: Knowledge

2. Verbal and non-verbal communication are the two primary types of language.

ANS: T PTS: 1 DIF: Difficulty: Easy
REF: p. 118 OBJ: LO: 05-02 NAT: BUSPROG: Diversity
STA: DISC: Environmental Influence KEY: Bloom's: Knowledge

3. The primary reason why language mistakes occur in global business is that organizations
tend to use backward translation.

ANS: F PTS: 1 DIF: Difficulty: Moderate
REF: p. 119 OBJ: LO: 05-02 NAT: BUSPROG: Diversity
STA: DISC: Environmental Influence KEY: Bloom's: Analysis

4. In Kuwait, weekends are Monday and Tuesday, not Saturday and Sunday as they are in
most Western nations.

ANS: F PTS: 1 DIF: Difficulty: Moderate
REF: p. 120 OBJ: LO: 05-02 NAT: BUSPROG: Diversity
STA: DISC: Environmental Influence KEY: Bloom's: Knowledge

5. In Arab countries, business executives will often digress from the primary purpose of the
meeting, then eventually return to the topic initially discussed.

ANS: T PTS: 1 DIF: Difficulty: Moderate
REF: p. 121 OBJ: LO: 05-02 NAT: BUSPROG: Diversity
STA: DISC: Environmental Influence KEY: Bloom's: Comprehension

6. Mexican negotiators will frequently engage in long periods of silence, or may have
peripheral discussions among one another while ignoring foreign business people in the
room.

ANS: F PTS: 1 DIF: Difficulty: Challenging
REF: p. 121 OBJ: LO: 05-02 NAT: BUSPROG: Diversity
STA: DISC: Environmental Influence KEY: Bloom's: Comprehension

, Chapter 5:The Cultural Environment.
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2024/2025
7. The level of education must be such that high-tech products can be accepted because the
market knows how to use them.

ANS: T PTS: 1 DIF: Difficulty: Moderate
REF: p. 122 OBJ: LO: 05-02 NAT: BUSPROG: Diversity
STA: DISC: Environmental Influence KEY: Bloom's: Comprehension

8. Inwa means that groups at the top of the social pyramid exert a great deal of control over
others at lower levels of the pyramid.

ANS: F PTS: 1 DIF: Difficulty: Moderate
REF: p. 122 OBJ: LO: 05-02 NAT: BUSPROG: Diversity
STA: DISC: Environmental Influence KEY: Bloom's: Comprehension

9. Power distance examines the extent to which societies tolerate risk or are risk averse.

ANS: F PTS: 1 DIF: Difficulty: Moderate
REF: p. 123 OBJ: LO: 05-03 NAT: BUSPROG: Diversity
STA: DISC: Environmental Influence KEY: Bloom's: Knowledge

10. Hofstede’s masculine vs. feminine dimension is the extent to which a society values
traditionally masculine attributes (assertiveness, competition) or traditionally feminine ones
(modesty, caring for others).

ANS: T PTS: 1 DIF: Difficulty: Moderate
REF: p. 123 OBJ: LO: 05-03 NAT: BUSPROG: Diversity
STA: DISC: Environmental Influence KEY: Bloom's: Comprehension

11. According to the GLOBE Project, the lowest level of instituional collectivism existed for the
Anglo group.

ANS: F PTS: 1 DIF: Difficulty: Challenging
REF: p. 124 OBJ: LO: 05-03 NAT: BUSPROG: Diversity
STA: DISC: Environmental Influence KEY: Bloom's: Evaluation

12. The U.S. Department of Commerce Country Commercial Guide provides cultural
information for 133 countries.

ANS: T PTS: 1 DIF: Difficulty: Challenging
REF: p. 127 OBJ: LO: 05-04 NAT: BUSPROG: Diversity
STA: DISC: Environmental Influence KEY: Bloom's: Knowledge

13. When doing business in Russia, it is not appropriate to look directly into the eyes of your
Russian hosts.

, Chapter 5:The Cultural Environment.
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2024/2025
ANS: F PTS: 1 DIF: Difficulty: Challenging