Deck 16: Cross-Cultural Management Strategies

Question 1

Culture changes because individuals adapt to new ideas, information and new experiences over time.

Answer 1

True
Explanation: Cultures change over time as individuals are exposed to new ideas, new information, and new experiences. These changes reflect adaptation - over time beliefs change.

Question 2

Hybridization refers to maintaining cultural specific differences between two different countries

Answer 2

False
Explanation: Hybridization means that there is a certain degree of convergence and mutual influence between cultures.

Question 3

Ethnocentrism is the belief that there is a universal system of forms and conventions underlying the use of human language.

Answer 3

False
Explanation: The statement is false, this is not ethnocentrism, rather it describes universal grammar. In fact, ethnocentrism is the tendency to prefer the ideas of a culture other than one's own.

Question 4

Globalisation is a driver of cultural change

Question 5

Cultural convergence is the idea that there is increasing similarity between national cultures and a growing homogeneity of attitudes, beliefs, and values.

Question 6

Cultural diffusion describes a process by which traits spread from one culture to another.

Question 7

Multiculturalism focuses on maintaining separate cultural traditions and customs rather than blending them.

Question 8

A global mind-set is a highly complex cognitive structure characterized by an openness to, and articulation of, multiple cultural and strategic realities on both global and local levels.

Question 9

A key trait of a global manager is not necessarily someone intimately experienced with a particular market, but rather someone familiar with a sufficient range of markets to concede diversity and to know when to seek out local knowledge and experience.

Question 10

Cross-cultural analysis, as shown in cultural clusters for example, illustrates both the extent and nature of cultural differences.

Question 11

Global leadership is more complex in domestic firms than international firms because corporate headquarters is where major decisions are made.

Question 12

Cultural differences are playing a more significant role in competitive strategy

Question 13

_______ is the belief within a culture that its values are superior to those of foreign cultures.

A) Polycentricity
B) Geocentricity
C) Ethnocentricity
D) Egocentricity

Question 14

_______ is not among Hofstede's 5 dimensions of culture.

A) Long/short term orientation
B) Masculinity/ femininity
C) High/ low uncertainty avoidance
D) Long/ short power direction

Question 15

In an international skills inventory, tolerance and sensitivity to others are termed _______

A) intercultural communications skills.
B) work effectiveness skills.
C) coping skills.
D) adaptation skills.

Question 16

MNEs are pushed to re-think employment strategies because of

A) ethnocentricity.
B) expatriate failure.
C) geocentricity.
D) cultural superiority.

Question 17

Globalization has allowed numerous cultures to quickly attain levels of technology that may have taken much longer for them to achieve in isolation. Arriving at different stages of development, urbanization, and industrialization at different times is referred to as _______

A) Cultural attainment
B) cultural divergence.
C) technological divergence.
D) cultural significance.

Question 18

Cultural change is being driven on a global basis by _______

A) new technologies, particularly communications technologies.
B) wider adoption of English language.
C) The growing acceptance of political democracy.
D) All of the above.

Question 19

More MNEs are moving from the position that cultural diversity is problematic, to one that sees such diversity as offering opportunities for creating sustainable competitive advantages.