1. The three main challenges faced by virtual teams are complexity, restricted channels and ______________.
2. Most teams focus on how to use ________________ to overcome the challenges of the conditions.
3. Strategy execution is embedded in forethought and perseverance. True or False? ______
4. The formulation and implementation of a strategy requires no understanding of market demands, but one must understand the competition and the external constraints such as government policies. True or False? ________
5. When preparing for execution, internal organization alignment
a. Relies on the organization’s structure, its people, tasks and work systems
b. Differentiated organization set for success
c. Does not require interdependence
d. None of the alternatives
e. All the available alternatives
6. Organizations are social-technical systems. True or False? ______
7. Organizations should be designed so that the behavior elicited by the management system matches the needs of the organization. True or False? ______
8. Two of the most talked about and studied management systems are performance appraisal and rewards. Appraisal processes are seen in many forms and administered in many ways. However, at the core there are several common purposes as listed above, except:
a. Communicate expectations
b. Provide feedback
c. Identify areas of developmental needs
d. Avoid conflicts
e. None of the above
9. Who commented that theories reflect the cultural environment in which they were written?
a. Porter
b. Hofstede
c. Peter Drucker
d. Lincoln Electric’s CEO
e. Hax and Wilde
10. When comes to strategic change, in the ______________ stage, as performance begins to suffer after an environmental shift, more managers see the warning signs but they very likely may interpret them differently depending on their roles or functional perspectives.
11. Change occurs
a. In a larger organizational context
b. Always in simultaneous correlations
c. Only if organizations can build a culture of change
d. Often in a cyclical model
12. Global managers should develop organizational cultures that create ______________, enabling it to allow agility, flexibility, and adaptation to changing environmental conditions.
13. Change-ready organizations require change-avert people. True or False? ________
14. What is integrity?
a. The quality of being honest and having strong moral principles; moral uprightness.
b. Consistency among what you believe in your heart, think in your head, say with your mouth, and do.
c. The state of being whole and undivided.
d. All the available options define it
15. The ethical frame of reference is not concerned with human behavior in society and with the relationships, duties, and obligations between people, groups, and organizations, only the legality of a behavior. True or False? _________
16. What does FCPA stands for?
a. Foreign Corrupt Practice Act
b. Foreign Compliance Practice Act
c. Foreign Corruption Political Act
d. Financial Compliance Political Act
17. Under FCPA, it is illegal for U.S. citizens to make a payment to a foreign official to obtain business. True or False? _______
18. Regarding FCPA, the following assertions are correct, except:
a. Bribing, the act of offering anything of value to a foreign official in exchange of something, is illegal.
b. Extortion, the act of a foreign official asking for anything of value in exchange of something, is not illegal
c. Facilitating payments are legal for routine government actions
d. Foreign executives paying bribes to other foreign non-government officials are not under the jurisdiction of the FCPA
19. Rationalizing one’s behavior by transforming an ethical problem into another type of problem gives one the feeling of being absolved from culpability by putting the burden of responsibility elsewhere. True or False? _____
