International Business Globalization
Chapter 03
Differences in Culture
/ Questions 1. (p. 88) In today's world of global communications, rapid transportation and global markets, cultural differences have ceased to exist.
Difficulty: Medium 2. (p. 88) Culture is static.
Difficulty: Medium 3. (p. 89) Values are abstract ideas about what a group believes to be right, good and desirable.
Difficulty: Easy 4. (p. 89) A society is another name for a country.
Difficulty: Easy 5. (p. 89) A country is defined as a system of values and norms that are shared among a group of people and that when taken together constitute a design for living.
Difficulty: Easy
6. (p. 89) People who violate folkways are considered to be evil or bad.
Difficulty: Medium 7. (p. 90) Folkways include rituals and symbolic behavior.
Difficulty: Medium 8. (p. 90) The bow that is given by a Japanese business executive to another business executive is an example of symbolic behavior.
Difficulty: Medium 9. (p. 90) Mores have much greater significance than folkways.
Difficulty: Medium 10. (p. 91) If a country is characterized as having a single homogenous culture, then its national culture also is homogenous and not a mosaic of subcultures.
Difficulty: Medium 11. (p. 91) The values and norms of a culture are evolutionary.
Difficulty: Medium
12. (p. 92) A society's social structure refers to its basic social organization.
Difficulty: Easy 13. (p. 92) Individualism has led to a high degree of managerial mobility between companies resulting in managers who have good general skills but lack company-specific experience.
Difficulty: Medium 14. (p. 93) The emphasis on individualism in the U.S. may raise the costs of doing business due to its adverse impact on managerial stability and cooperation.
Difficulty: Medium 15.
Differences in Culture
/ Questions 1. (p. 88) In today's world of global communications, rapid transportation and global markets, cultural differences have ceased to exist.
Difficulty: Medium 2. (p. 88) Culture is static.
Difficulty: Medium 3. (p. 89) Values are abstract ideas about what a group believes to be right, good and desirable.
Difficulty: Easy 4. (p. 89) A society is another name for a country.
Difficulty: Easy 5. (p. 89) A country is defined as a system of values and norms that are shared among a group of people and that when taken together constitute a design for living.
Difficulty: Easy
6. (p. 89) People who violate folkways are considered to be evil or bad.
Difficulty: Medium 7. (p. 90) Folkways include rituals and symbolic behavior.
Difficulty: Medium 8. (p. 90) The bow that is given by a Japanese business executive to another business executive is an example of symbolic behavior.
Difficulty: Medium 9. (p. 90) Mores have much greater significance than folkways.
Difficulty: Medium 10. (p. 91) If a country is characterized as having a single homogenous culture, then its national culture also is homogenous and not a mosaic of subcultures.
Difficulty: Medium 11. (p. 91) The values and norms of a culture are evolutionary.
Difficulty: Medium
12. (p. 92) A society's social structure refers to its basic social organization.
Difficulty: Easy 13. (p. 92) Individualism has led to a high degree of managerial mobility between companies resulting in managers who have good general skills but lack company-specific experience.
Difficulty: Medium 14. (p. 93) The emphasis on individualism in the U.S. may raise the costs of doing business due to its adverse impact on managerial stability and cooperation.
Difficulty: Medium 15.