Chapter 2 The Cultural Environments Facing Business(12)

INTERNATIONAL OPERATION MANAGEMENT

35) Companies may be able to better motivate workers through delayed compensation, such as retirement programs, in a society characterized by ________.

A) low uncertainty avoidance

B) high trust

C) high future orientation

D) high masculinity

Answer: C

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Skill: Concept

Objective: STUDY QUESTION 2.9: What cultural factors help to explain risk-taking behavior? How do differences affect business?

AACSB: Multicultural and Diversity

36) Societies in which people are willing to work hard and to blame and reward themselves for outcomes are most accurately characterized by a belief in ________.

A) self-determination

B) fatalism

C) collectivism

D) low power distance

Answer: A

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Skill: Concept

Objective: STUDY QUESTION 2.9: What cultural factors help to explain risk-taking behavior? How do differences affect business?

AACSB: Multicultural and Diversity

37) In a(n) ________ culture, people tend to regard seemingly peripheral information as pertinent to decision making and infer meanings from things that people say either indirectly or casually.

A) pragmatist

B) idealist

C) fatalistic

D) high-context

Answer: D

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Skill: Concept

Objective: STUDY QUESTION 2.10: Explain the concepts of low-context versus high-context cultures, monochronic versus polychronic cultures, and idealistic versus pragmatist cultures. AACSB: Multicultural and Diversity

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