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Question 1

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What are considered to be managers' responsibilities
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  • Controlling the inflow of new employees
  • Managing the neatness of surrounding work area
  • Managing human, financial, informational and physical resources
  • Ensuring that the staff members utilize their break times
  • Maintaining sustainbilitiy of a company

Question 2

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The increasing intesity and diversity that characterize today's globalization business environment require?
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  • a) Managers that can learn new languages very quickly
  • b) Managers who are able to succeed in multiple cultures
  • c) Managers who are able to lead a multicultural team
  • d) a and b
  • e) All of them

Question 3

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A leader can expedite the team development process by
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  • a) Dismissing low performing team members
  • b) Creating an MOU
  • c) Having regular after action reviews
  • d) Assigne team members roles
  • e) Both b and c

Question 4

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Global managers can be divided into three categories. Which category options is right?
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  • Expatriates, virtual managers, global leader
  • Expatriates, virtual managers, frequent flyers
  • Virtual managers, global leaders
  • Expatriates, frequent flyers
  • Expatriates, virtual managers, cultural manager

Question 5

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Some countries according to studies have shown that they make a wide use of participative leadership approaches, again following from their somewhat more egalitarian culture. Which countries is this fact about?
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  • France and Germany
  • United Kingdom and Portugal
  • Austria, Switzerland and Italy
  • The Scandinavian countries
  • The Netherlands and Belgium

Question 6

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Situational leadership means to adapt your leadership style according to:
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  • People and task
  • Resource availability
  • Culture
  • Maturity level of people
  • Your personal strength

Question 7

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What are the characteristics of the consultative decision making?
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  • Moderate problem analysis, slow decision making, mederate acceptance and implementation
  • Rapid problem analysis, rapid decision making, slow acceptance and implementation
  • Slow problem analysis, slow decision making, rapid acceptance and implementation
  • Moderate problem analysis, rapid decision making, mederate acceptance and implementation
  • Rapid problem analysis, moderate decision making, slow acceptance and implementation

Question 8

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What is strategic choice about?
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  • Analyzing
  • Decision making
  • Prioritization
  • Training
  • Forecasting

Question 9

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Which cultural dimensions is not included in the Hofstede model?
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  • Uncertainty avoidance
  • Masculinity/feminity
  • Human orientation
  • Maturity level of people
  • Your personal strength

Question 10

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Ignoring the context in which the message is conveyed...
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  • makes it easier to focus on the real message
  • can lead to a misundersanding of the real message
  • doesn't matter in video conferences as facial expressions can't be interpreted anyway
  • is always an advantage when the communicating people don't have the same native language and are used to different cultures
  • make the conversation more professional

Question 11

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Which of the following in Not part of the Vengel's motivation and engagement theory?
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  • Achievement
  • Affiliation
  • Authonomy
  • Actualization
  • Affection

Question 12

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Which variable occure in our cognitive schema
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  • Expectations
  • Biases
  • Knowledge base
  • Experiences
  • All of the above

Question 13

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It was emphasized that leaders should
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  • a) Treat everyone the same
  • b) everyone with respect
  • c) Don't treat everyone the same
  • d) Both a and b
  • e) Both b and c

Question 14

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How can multicultural learning be facilitated?
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  • people with different languages should always try to communicate in English because everyone should be familiar to a western culture
  • engaging interpreters to overcome the cultural differences
  • usually multicultural learning isn't a big deal because we are all humans and therfore stick to the same values
  • in a professional relationship multicultural learning isn't very important because just hard facts are important for doing business
  • studying the language, discussing with foreign nationals and observing what others are doing

Question 15

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The "locus of control" concept deals with peoples believe on how far they can control their own destiny. What does the "internal" locus include?
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  • The peoples destiny is pre-defined
  • People believe that they can largely create their own destiny
  • Special circumstances are needed, so that people can influence their own destiny
  • Even if people want, they could not influence their own destiny
  • Inner perspective of people's believe

Question 16

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Is it important to speak and have knowledge of the local language?
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  • No, English as a business language is well known in all parts of the world
  • Yes, because it ease the conversation with local business people and improves the ability of understanding the culture
  • No, it do not have any significant advantages to speak the local language
  • Yes, it can help you to find the place of the meeting
  • Yes, if you have a dinner in a restaurant with your business partners

Question 17

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In low-context cultures
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  • Status differences often affect both medium and message
  • A request is declined by vagueness or body language
  • Nonverbal cues are often more important
  • The medium is typically more important than the message
  • The message s typically more important than the medium

Question 18

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Which of the six styles of leadership work best when working with people who are peers or more skilled than you
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  • Visionary
  • Coach
  • Counsellor
  • Concensus builder
  • Pacesetter, commander

Question 19

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What is selective preception
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  • 1) It is a situation to get potential information
  • 2) It is a situation to to ignore something
  • 3) It is a situation to choose what to focus on and what to ignore
  • 4) It is a nonverbal communication
  • 5) Both 1 and 2 are correct

Question 20

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Which following options can be considered as typical high-context culture?
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  • People play by external rules
  • More interpersonal connections of shorter duration
  • More knowledge is condified, public, external, and accessible
  • Knowledge is situational, relational
  • Task-centered

Question 21

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Shackleton was an example of a leader who was especially able to
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  • a) Adjust his priorities in light of new obsticles
  • b) Salvage victories from setbacks
  • c) Make strategic planes
  • d) Both a and b
  • e) both b and c

Question 22

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In negotiation, which culture's first offer is most beyond to the final position?
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  • Asians (10-20%)
  • Latin Americans (20-40%)
  • Russians (50-60%)
  • Middle Easterns (20-50%)
  • North Americans (5-10%)

Question 23

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In deals and partnerships what do we primarly look for
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  • "What might they be willing to accept?"
  • "How do we create value together?"
  • "What values this partnership can bring in our business?"
  • "What benefit will we have?"
  • "How do we avoid discussion?"

Question 24

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What takes a central role in conflict resolution strategies?
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  • money
  • partners goals
  • influence
  • compromise
  • long-term perspective

Question 25

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What are the new "bottom lines for business leaders to keep in mind?
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  • profit, plan, people
  • price, people, peace
  • people, planet, profit
  • peace, partnership, plan
  • passion, profits, peace

Question 26

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Leadership is:
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  • The activity of planning and decision making
  • The activity of planning and controlling
  • The activity of decision making and coordinating
  • An integral and inseparable part of good management
  • An activity that has to be separeted from the managerial activity

Question 27

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The responsibility of business to positively impact society is called ?
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  • CSR
  • SCR
  • RSC
  • SRC
  • None of above

Question 28

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The greates deterrent to corruption is:
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  • Anti-corruption policy
  • Transparency
  • Harsher punishment/consequences
  • More education
  • Better laws

Question 29

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Which of these options describe best multicultural competence
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  • Understanding and working effectively across countries
  • Understanding and working effectively across different people
  • Understanding and working effectively accross cultures
  • Understanding other languages
  • understanding and working with people from different countries

Question 30

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Leadership is:
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  • Getting things done through people
  • Influence
  • The act of managing people
  • How power is being delegated and used
  • How authority is udes to accomplish goals

Question 31

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What is the fundation or foremost problem with dysfunctional teams?
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  • Lack of accountability
  • Lack of commitment
  • Fear of conflict
  • Lack of trust
  • None of the above

Question 32

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Within an egelitarian culture, which managerial strategy should NOT be applied
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  • emphasize extrinsic rewards and large salary differentials
  • Encourage participative or consultative decision making
  • Support collaborative and flexible leaders
  • Reward constructive feedbacks and creativity
  • Emphasize intrinsic rewards and minimal salary differentials

Question 33

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An MOU should first be developed at what stage of the team development cycle:
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  • Performing
  • Storming
  • Norming
  • Forming
  • Adjouring

Question 34

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According to Schmitz, culture is what is ......... within a group
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  • a) expected and rainforced
  • b) valued and reinforced
  • c) understood and empasized
  • d) rewarded
  • e) Both a and d

Question 35

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In the culture "iceberg" metaphor which of the following is above the surface?
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  • Behaviours
  • Values
  • Beliefs
  • Assumptions
  • All of the above

Question 36

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What is true when considering both Holfsteds model and Scmitz's models of culture?
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  • Holfsted model is widely accepted by anthropologists
  • Schmitz has more dimensions
  • Holfsted's model is based on more data
  • Scmitz's model does not account for individualism
  • None of the above

Question 37

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What is common between cultures when it comes to incentive systems?
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  • They don't use incentive systems
  • They only use extrinsic incentives
  • They only use instrictive encentives
  • There is no difference in how they use they use extrinsic and intrinsic incentives
  • They combine extrinsic and intrinsic incentives but use them in different ways

Question 38

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What is self-serving bias?
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  • Leaders that tend to do all the decisions making without consulting with their employees
  • Leaders from a different culture which don't adapt to the new culture
  • Leaders that tend to pick the solution that are most profitably to themselves and no to the company as a whole
  • Leaders that pick employees who have the same idealistic view as themselves
  • Leaders that tend to take credit for company succes but not the failures

Question 39

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Which of these aspects in not a stage in psychological adaptation to a new culture?
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  • Biculturalism
  • Disillusionment
  • Adaptation
  • Anger
  • Honeymoon

Question 40

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Arstotle and Maxwell (especially Maxwell) emphasized that leaders earn trust through competence, ........ and ............
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  • Character and correctness
  • Connection and character
  • Charisma and correctness
  • Correctness and connection
  • Character and Charisma
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