Chapter 4 T/F
The Koran speaks disapprovingly of free enterprise.
FALSE
In countries where the value of group identification is considered to be primary, managers and workers are discouraged from moving from company to company.
TRUE
International businesses that are ill-informed about the practices of another culture are likely to fail.
TRUE
Folkways have much greater significance than mores.
FALSE
Folkways include rituals and symbolic behavior.
TRUE
Guanxi is an important mechanism for building long-term business relationships and getting business done in China.
TRUE
Hofstede's research has been criticized because it was culturally bound.
TRUE
Unspoken language refers to nonverbal communication.
TRUE
An antagonistic relationship between management and labor classes may result in lower costs of production.
FALSE
The value systems and norms of a country are unrelated to the costs of doing business in that country.
FALSE
Unlike Hinduism, Buddhism supports the caste system.
FALSE
A caste system is a closed system of stratification in which social position is determined by the family into which the person is born.
TRUE
According to Hofstede, the concept of Confucian dynamism captures attitudes toward time, persistence, protection of face, and respect for tradition.
TRUE
According to Max Weber, Protestantism encouraged capitalism's development by emphasizing the importance of wealth creation and frugality.
TRUE
Both Hindus and Buddhists stress the afterlife and spiritual achievement rather than involvement in this world.
TRUE
Class consciousness refers to a condition where people tend to perceive themselves in terms of their class background.
TRUE
Culture is not static.
TRUE
Education plays an important role, from an international business perspective, as a determinant of national competitive advantage.
TRUE
Even if a country can be characterized as having a single homogenous culture, often that national culture is a mosaic of subcultures.
TRUE
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.
TRUE
Max Weber thought that devout Hindus would be less likely to engage in entrepreneurial activity than devout Protestants.
TRUE
The connection between culture and competitive advantage has important implications for the choice of countries in which to locate production facilities and do business.
TRUE
The convergence hypothesis states that there is a slow but steady merging occurring across different cultures towards some universally accepted values and norms.
TRUE
The emphasis on the individual in the United States may raise the costs of doing business due to its adverse impact on managerial stability and cooperation.
TRUE
The protection of the right to private property is embedded within Islam.
TRUE
The values and norms of a culture do not emerge fully formed.
TRUE
Upon meeting a foreign business executive, a Japanese executive will hold his business card in both hands and bow while presenting the card to the foreigner. This is an example of ritual behavior.
TRUE
Like Christianity and Judaism, Islam is a polytheistic religion.
FALSE
Norms are abstract ideas about what a group believes to be good, right, and desirable.
FALSE
People who take food or safety for granted tend to be xenophobic, are wary of political activity, have authoritarian tendencies, and believe that men make better political leaders than women.
FALSE
Since English is often thought of as the global language of business, it is not important for an American business executive to learn foreign languages.
FALSE
The most rigid system of stratification is a class system.
FALSE
The mudarabah contract is the most widely used Islamic banking method, because it is the easiest to implement.
FALSE
The term social strata refers to the extent to which individuals can move out of the strata into which they were born.
FALSE
The term society is another name for a country; each country has a single society.
FALSE
A class system is a rigid form of social stratification in which the position a person has by birth cannot be changed through his/her own achievements or luck.
FALSE
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.
FALSE
Because of its individualistic mindset, Japanese culture is more supportive of entrepreneurial activities than American culture.
FALSE
Confucianism is a religion.
FALSE
Ethical systems may be defined as a system of shared beliefs and rituals that are concerned with the realm of the sacred.
FALSE
Hofstede's concept of power distance focused on the extent to which different cultures socialized their members into tolerating uncertainty.
FALSE
Hofstede's study found that in masculine cultures, sex roles were less sharply distinguished, and little differentiation was made between men and women in the same job.
FALSE
In today's world of global communications, rapid transportation, and global markets, cultural differences have ceased to exist.
FALSE