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Culture and leadership

Culture and leadership

Pregunta 1 de 40

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What are considered to be managers' responsibilities

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • 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

Explicación

Pregunta 2 de 40

1

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

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • 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

Explicación

Pregunta 3 de 40

1

A leader can expedite the team development process by

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • 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

Explicación

Pregunta 4 de 40

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

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • Expatriates, virtual managers, global leader

  • Expatriates, virtual managers, frequent flyers

  • Virtual managers, global leaders

  • Expatriates, frequent flyers

  • Expatriates, virtual managers, cultural manager

Explicación

Pregunta 5 de 40

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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?

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • France and Germany

  • United Kingdom and Portugal

  • Austria, Switzerland and Italy

  • The Scandinavian countries

  • The Netherlands and Belgium

Explicación

Pregunta 6 de 40

1

Situational leadership means to adapt your leadership style according to:

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • People and task

  • Resource availability

  • Culture

  • Maturity level of people

  • Your personal strength

Explicación

Pregunta 7 de 40

1

What are the characteristics of the consultative decision making?

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • 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

Explicación

Pregunta 8 de 40

1

What is strategic choice about?

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • Analyzing

  • Decision making

  • Prioritization

  • Training

  • Forecasting

Explicación

Pregunta 9 de 40

1

Which cultural dimensions is not included in the Hofstede model?

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • Uncertainty avoidance

  • Masculinity/feminity

  • Human orientation

  • Maturity level of people

  • Your personal strength

Explicación

Pregunta 10 de 40

1

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

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • 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

Explicación

Pregunta 11 de 40

1

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

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • Achievement

  • Affiliation

  • Authonomy

  • Actualization

  • Affection

Explicación

Pregunta 12 de 40

1

Which variable occure in our cognitive schema

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • Expectations

  • Biases

  • Knowledge base

  • Experiences

  • All of the above

Explicación

Pregunta 13 de 40

1

It was emphasized that leaders should

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • 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

Explicación

Pregunta 14 de 40

1

How can multicultural learning be facilitated?

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • 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

Explicación

Pregunta 15 de 40

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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?

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • 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

Explicación

Pregunta 16 de 40

1

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

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • 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

Explicación

Pregunta 17 de 40

1

In low-context cultures

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • 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

Explicación

Pregunta 18 de 40

1

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

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • Visionary

  • Coach

  • Counsellor

  • Concensus builder

  • Pacesetter, commander

Explicación

Pregunta 19 de 40

1

What is selective preception

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • 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

Explicación

Pregunta 20 de 40

1

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

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • 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

Explicación

Pregunta 21 de 40

1

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

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • 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

Explicación

Pregunta 22 de 40

1

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

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • Asians (10-20%)

  • Latin Americans (20-40%)

  • Russians (50-60%)

  • Middle Easterns (20-50%)

  • North Americans (5-10%)

Explicación

Pregunta 23 de 40

1

In deals and partnerships what do we primarly look for

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • "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?"

Explicación

Pregunta 24 de 40

1

What takes a central role in conflict resolution strategies?

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • money

  • partners goals

  • influence

  • compromise

  • long-term perspective

Explicación

Pregunta 25 de 40

1

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

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • profit, plan, people

  • price, people, peace

  • people, planet, profit

  • peace, partnership, plan

  • passion, profits, peace

Explicación

Pregunta 26 de 40

1

Leadership is:

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • 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

Explicación

Pregunta 27 de 40

1

The responsibility of business to positively impact society is called ?

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • CSR

  • SCR

  • RSC

  • SRC

  • None of above

Explicación

Pregunta 28 de 40

1

The greates deterrent to corruption is:

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • Anti-corruption policy

  • Transparency

  • Harsher punishment/consequences

  • More education

  • Better laws

Explicación

Pregunta 29 de 40

1

Which of these options describe best multicultural competence

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • 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

Explicación

Pregunta 30 de 40

1

Leadership is:

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • 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

Explicación

Pregunta 31 de 40

1

What is the fundation or foremost problem with dysfunctional teams?

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • Lack of accountability

  • Lack of commitment

  • Fear of conflict

  • Lack of trust

  • None of the above

Explicación

Pregunta 32 de 40

1

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

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • 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

Explicación

Pregunta 33 de 40

1

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

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • Performing

  • Storming

  • Norming

  • Forming

  • Adjouring

Explicación

Pregunta 34 de 40

1

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

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • a) expected and rainforced

  • b) valued and reinforced

  • c) understood and empasized

  • d) rewarded

  • e) Both a and d

Explicación

Pregunta 35 de 40

1

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

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • Behaviours

  • Values

  • Beliefs

  • Assumptions

  • All of the above

Explicación

Pregunta 36 de 40

1

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

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • 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

Explicación

Pregunta 37 de 40

1

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

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • 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

Explicación

Pregunta 38 de 40

1

What is self-serving bias?

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • 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

Explicación

Pregunta 39 de 40

1

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

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • Biculturalism

  • Disillusionment

  • Adaptation

  • Anger

  • Honeymoon

Explicación

Pregunta 40 de 40

1

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

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • Character and correctness

  • Connection and character

  • Charisma and correctness

  • Correctness and connection

  • Character and Charisma

Explicación

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