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Culture and leadership

Culture and leadership

Question 1 of 40

1

What are considered to be managers' responsibilities

Select one of the following:

  • 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

Explanation

Question 2 of 40

1

The increasing intesity and diversity that characterize today's globalization business environment require?

Select one of the following:

  • 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

Explanation

Question 3 of 40

1

A leader can expedite the team development process by

Select one of the following:

  • 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

Explanation

Question 4 of 40

1

Global managers can be divided into three categories. Which category options is right?

Select one of the following:

  • Expatriates, virtual managers, global leader

  • Expatriates, virtual managers, frequent flyers

  • Virtual managers, global leaders

  • Expatriates, frequent flyers

  • Expatriates, virtual managers, cultural manager

Explanation

Question 5 of 40

1

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?

Select one of the following:

  • France and Germany

  • United Kingdom and Portugal

  • Austria, Switzerland and Italy

  • The Scandinavian countries

  • The Netherlands and Belgium

Explanation

Question 6 of 40

1

Situational leadership means to adapt your leadership style according to:

Select one of the following:

  • People and task

  • Resource availability

  • Culture

  • Maturity level of people

  • Your personal strength

Explanation

Question 7 of 40

1

What are the characteristics of the consultative decision making?

Select one of the following:

  • 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

Explanation

Question 8 of 40

1

What is strategic choice about?

Select one of the following:

  • Analyzing

  • Decision making

  • Prioritization

  • Training

  • Forecasting

Explanation

Question 9 of 40

1

Which cultural dimensions is not included in the Hofstede model?

Select one of the following:

  • Uncertainty avoidance

  • Masculinity/feminity

  • Human orientation

  • Maturity level of people

  • Your personal strength

Explanation

Question 10 of 40

1

Ignoring the context in which the message is conveyed...

Select one of the following:

  • 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

Explanation

Question 11 of 40

1

Which of the following in Not part of the Vengel's motivation and engagement theory?

Select one of the following:

  • Achievement

  • Affiliation

  • Authonomy

  • Actualization

  • Affection

Explanation

Question 12 of 40

1

Which variable occure in our cognitive schema

Select one of the following:

  • Expectations

  • Biases

  • Knowledge base

  • Experiences

  • All of the above

Explanation

Question 13 of 40

1

It was emphasized that leaders should

Select one of the following:

  • 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

Explanation

Question 14 of 40

1

How can multicultural learning be facilitated?

Select one of the following:

  • 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

Explanation

Question 15 of 40

1

The "locus of control" concept deals with peoples believe on how far they can control their own destiny. What does the "internal" locus include?

Select one of the following:

  • 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

Explanation

Question 16 of 40

1

Is it important to speak and have knowledge of the local language?

Select one of the following:

  • 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

Explanation

Question 17 of 40

1

In low-context cultures

Select one of the following:

  • 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

Explanation

Question 18 of 40

1

Which of the six styles of leadership work best when working with people who are peers or more skilled than you

Select one of the following:

  • Visionary

  • Coach

  • Counsellor

  • Concensus builder

  • Pacesetter, commander

Explanation

Question 19 of 40

1

What is selective preception

Select one of the following:

  • 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

Explanation

Question 20 of 40

1

Which following options can be considered as typical high-context culture?

Select one of the following:

  • 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

Explanation

Question 21 of 40

1

Shackleton was an example of a leader who was especially able to

Select one of the following:

  • 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

Explanation

Question 22 of 40

1

In negotiation, which culture's first offer is most beyond to the final position?

Select one of the following:

  • Asians (10-20%)

  • Latin Americans (20-40%)

  • Russians (50-60%)

  • Middle Easterns (20-50%)

  • North Americans (5-10%)

Explanation

Question 23 of 40

1

In deals and partnerships what do we primarly look for

Select one of the following:

  • "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?"

Explanation

Question 24 of 40

1

What takes a central role in conflict resolution strategies?

Select one of the following:

  • money

  • partners goals

  • influence

  • compromise

  • long-term perspective

Explanation

Question 25 of 40

1

What are the new "bottom lines for business leaders to keep in mind?

Select one of the following:

  • profit, plan, people

  • price, people, peace

  • people, planet, profit

  • peace, partnership, plan

  • passion, profits, peace

Explanation

Question 26 of 40

1

Leadership is:

Select one of the following:

  • 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

Explanation

Question 27 of 40

1

The responsibility of business to positively impact society is called ?

Select one of the following:

  • CSR

  • SCR

  • RSC

  • SRC

  • None of above

Explanation

Question 28 of 40

1

The greates deterrent to corruption is:

Select one of the following:

  • Anti-corruption policy

  • Transparency

  • Harsher punishment/consequences

  • More education

  • Better laws

Explanation

Question 29 of 40

1

Which of these options describe best multicultural competence

Select one of the following:

  • 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

Explanation

Question 30 of 40

1

Leadership is:

Select one of the following:

  • 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

Explanation

Question 31 of 40

1

What is the fundation or foremost problem with dysfunctional teams?

Select one of the following:

  • Lack of accountability

  • Lack of commitment

  • Fear of conflict

  • Lack of trust

  • None of the above

Explanation

Question 32 of 40

1

Within an egelitarian culture, which managerial strategy should NOT be applied

Select one of the following:

  • 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

Explanation

Question 33 of 40

1

An MOU should first be developed at what stage of the team development cycle:

Select one of the following:

  • Performing

  • Storming

  • Norming

  • Forming

  • Adjouring

Explanation

Question 34 of 40

1

According to Schmitz, culture is what is ......... within a group

Select one of the following:

  • a) expected and rainforced

  • b) valued and reinforced

  • c) understood and empasized

  • d) rewarded

  • e) Both a and d

Explanation

Question 35 of 40

1

In the culture "iceberg" metaphor which of the following is above the surface?

Select one of the following:

  • Behaviours

  • Values

  • Beliefs

  • Assumptions

  • All of the above

Explanation

Question 36 of 40

1

What is true when considering both Holfsteds model and Scmitz's models of culture?

Select one of the following:

  • 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

Explanation

Question 37 of 40

1

What is common between cultures when it comes to incentive systems?

Select one of the following:

  • 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

Explanation

Question 38 of 40

1

What is self-serving bias?

Select one of the following:

  • 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

Explanation

Question 39 of 40

1

Which of these aspects in not a stage in psychological adaptation to a new culture?

Select one of the following:

  • Biculturalism

  • Disillusionment

  • Adaptation

  • Anger

  • Honeymoon

Explanation

Question 40 of 40

1

Arstotle and Maxwell (especially Maxwell) emphasized that leaders earn trust through competence, ........ and ............

Select one of the following:

  • Character and correctness

  • Connection and character

  • Charisma and correctness

  • Correctness and connection

  • Character and Charisma

Explanation

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