Deck 8: Empowerment

Question 1

In the US the direct investment of foreign-based companies grew from $9 billion in 1966 to more than 300 trillion in 2002.

Answer 1

True

Question 2

It's been estimated that 20 to 40 percent of American managers fail to perform adequately abroad because they haven't been sufficiently prepared for adjusting to the foreign culture.

Answer 2

False

Question 3

Culture is what we grow up in.

Answer 3

True

Question 4

The Philippines, Venezuela, and Mexico are countries with low power distance.

Question 5

Canada and the United States are low-context cultures.

Question 6

It is acceptable to decline sampling a nation's delicacies.

Question 7

Which one of the following is not a dimension of national culture?

A) power distance
B) uncertainty acceptance
C) individualism/collectivism
D) masculinity/ femininity

Question 8

Of the following which is said to have weak uncertainty avoidance?

A) England
B) Belgium
C) Japan
D) Singapore

Question 9

The need for more intercultural awareness arises from

A) the global village
B) different greeting and gift-giving rituals
C) different standards of dress
D) both b and c