Chapter 2 The Cultural Environments Facing Business(15)

INTERNATIONAL OPERATION MANAGEMENT

44) Evaluating the importance of potential clients or partners by the way they dress is an example of using ________.

A) pragmatism

B) silent language

C) polychronism

D) fatalism

Answer: B

Diff: 2 Page Ref: 69

Skill: Concept

Objective: STUDY QUESTION 2.11: What language problems occur when doing business with another country? What are suggestions for dealing with these problems?

AACSB: Communication

45) In spite of cultural differences, people working abroad are often able to do business successfully while still retaining their own cultural habits because ________.

A) other cultures have always admired foreign values

B) host country nationals are aware of differences and are willing to accept them in foreigners

C) the business world has become culturally homogeneous

D) host country nationals enjoy the humor of ridiculing these differences privately

Answer: B

Diff: 2 Page Ref: 70

Skill: Concept

Objective: STUDY QUESTION 2.12: What influences how much adjustment companies and managers must make when operating in different cultures?

AACSB: Multicultural and Diversity

46) The term cultural distance refers to ________.

A) the normal space between people in a society when communicating

B) the time it takes people to adjust to a different culture

C) the degree to which countries' cultures are separated by attributes such as language, ethnicity, and religion

D) the preferred relationship between superiors and subordinates in a given culture

Answer: C

Diff: 1 Page Ref: 70

Skill: Concept

Objective: STUDY QUESTION 2.12: What influences how much adjustment companies and managers must make when operating in different cultures?

AACSB: Multicultural and Diversity

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