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
10. Porter is known for the developing one of the most widely used _____________ __________ _________.
11. With globalization, executives deal with more organizations, governments, and people. True or False? ______
12. Below are three aspects of ambiguity that contribute to the complexity of globalization. Which ones are they?
a. Lack of information clarity, equivocality, and cause-effect relationships
b. Equivocality, cause-effect relationships, dissemination of information
c. Cause-effect relationships, equivocality, transparency of information
d. All alternatives are aspects of ambiguity contributing to the complexity of globalization
e. Only a and b are correct.
13. International assignments are generally considered essential for career development. True or False? _____
15. Finding appropriate candidates for international management assignments is a challenge. True or False? ________
16. Nearly anyone experiences disorientation when entering another culture. This phenomenon is called _______ ________.
17. There are generally four modes of responding to a new environment:
a. Going native, being a participator, being a tourist, and being an outcast
b. Assimilation, integration, separation, and marginalization
c. Explorer, porter, reporter, and easement.
d. Options a and b
e. Options b and c
18. International managers should be able to build global organizations that balance global integration against local responsiveness to effectively serve global customers. True or False? _________
19. Global organizational change has been defined as:
a. Strangely aligned alterations in patterns of employee behavior within organizations operating across national borders.
b. Strategically aligned alterations in patterns of employee behavior within organizations operating across national borders.
c. As a set of competitive environment changes, as it seems to do ever faster all the time.
d. None of these options
20. Ideally companies would like to be able to ____________ environmental shifts and make changes through a process of continuous learning and follow the path of renewal.
21. 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.
22. 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
23. Global managers should develop organizational cultures that create ______________, enabling it to allow agility, flexibility, and adaptation to changing environmental conditions.
24. Change-ready organizations require change-avert people. True or False? ________
25. 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
26. 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? _________
