WGU D080 Managing in a Global Business Environment Post Exam Fully Solved.
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WGU D080
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WGU D080
A company is considering establishing a subsidiary in a new host country and wishes to prepare its expatriates to adapt to the local environment.
How should this company prepare its expatriates?
Negotiation
Operational training
Repatriation
Cultural Training - Answer Cultural training
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WGU D080 Managing in a Global Business Environment Post Exam Fully Solved.
A company is considering establishing a subsidiary in a new host country and wishes to prepare its expatriates to adapt to the local environment.
How should this company prepare its expatriates?
Negotiation
Operational training
Repatriation
Cultural Training - Answer Cultural training
What happens to consumer surplus when tariffs and quotas are discontinued? - Answer They increase
Which type of tariff is put in place to specifically ensure that domestic industries are given an advantage?
- Answer Protective
What is a benefit of implementing a system of free trade? - Answer Reduced tariffs would result in lower costs of imported raw materials.
How are free trade agreements handled differently than treaties in the United States? - Answer Treaties must be approved by the Senate, whereas a free trade agreement must pass both houses of Congress.
Treaties must be approved by the Senate, whereas a free trade agreement must pass both houses of Congress. - Answer Tariffs
An airplane manufacturer outsources the manufacture of some its parts and sub-assemblies. They are then returned to the manufacturer's main plant for final assembly. - Answer Value chain Country A exports more goods to Country B than it imports from Country B. Country A receives more monetary gain by using this practice.
Which relationship does Country A have with Country B? - Answer Trade surplus
Country A has been criticized by other countries for giving generous tax credits to its corn farmers, which
in turn, enables the country's farmers to sell corn on the international markets cheaper than all other countries.
Which term is used by other countries to describe this practice? - Answer Government subsidies
A farmer knows that it takes 100 hours of labor to produce 100 bushels of corn. It only takes 50 hours of labor to produce 100 bushels of soy. Currently, a bushel of corn is selling at three times a bushel of soy.
Which type of cost should the farmer use to determine what to plant? - Answer Opportunity
A country produces goods more efficiently than all other countries in the same industry.
Which type of advantage does this country have? - Answer Absolute
Country A exports farming equipment to Country B, while Country B exports car manufacturing equipment to Country A. Both countries are highly developed and could develop these industries separately but instead made the decision to export and import these products from each other.
Which unique condition caused this practice between the two countries? - Answer Skill specialization
A company produces the same product over and over, and it has caused the manufacturing cost of the product to become cheaper and more competitive in international markets than similar products in the industry.
Which approach is this company using to achieve this ability? - Answer Economies of scale
A country with a new economy implemented trade protectionism in relation to countries with more developed economies.
Why did the country take this action? - Answer To restrict international economic trade
How do anti dumping laws protect a domestic market? - Answer They prevent foreign companies from selling goods and services at or below cost. How do Congress and the Department of Agriculture use quotas to their advantage? - Answer To increase domestic prices to specific levels to make products profitable
Which strategy should a government use to offset the cost of manufacturing domestically? - Answer Subsidies
Which type of globalization refers to the international movement of goods, capital, and services? - Answer Economic
The CEO of an international company reminds the executive vice presidents that while the company may do good while performing corporate social responsibilities, the business has one ultimate goal since it is engaged in commercial activities with corporate shareholders.
Which ultimate goal is the CEO emphasizing to the executive vice presidents? - Answer Profitability
A CEO decides to expand the company's business internationally by purchasing production capability in another country, including the foreign country's buildings and equipment.
Which type of market entry is the CEO using? - Answer Direct investment
A CEO seeks to better use the economies of scale and scope of production to increase the international company's profits.
Which type of globalization driver is the CEO seeking to use? - Answer Cost
A CEO is discussing an expansion of production of a company's highly perishable dairy line in a country that can offer low labor costs and good internet connections. The country has no highways, and roads are poorly maintained.
Which challenge to international business expansion do the road conditions present? - Answer Infrastructure
Which argument is used by critics who wish to discourage movement towards globalization? - Answer It increases the wealth of the rich rather than the poor Anarchism - Answer Individuals control political activities, and the government has no control over these activities
Totalitarianism - Answer A centralized government creates oppressive policies based on ideas from powerful leadership.
Direct democracy - Answer The government provides a method of voting for the people of a country, not for elected officials.
What is a free trade zone? - Answer A geographic region in which a county will reduce restrictions that might prevent or reduce trade
Which term describes a government giving a tax break to a producer to increase their global competitiveness? - Answer Subsidies
Industrialized - Answer Prevalent formation of new markets with possibility of saturation
Less-developed - Answer Focus on agriculture and raw materials with limited imports
Developing country - Answer Growing population which leads to long-term growth potential.
Which type of economy is decentralized and allows firms and households to participate in global trade with minimum governmental interference? - Answer Market
What type of economy is centered on families or tribes where little to no global trade is practiced? - Answer Traditional
Socialism - Answer a system in which the government owns and operates a country's means of production
Capitalism - Answer A system in which the means of production is controlled by private owners who can choose to participate in global trade.
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