When the Values of a Firm's Top Executives Are Classified

question 57

Multiple Choice

When the values of a firm's top executives are classified as ethnocentric, it means that there is a .

• A)prevailing attitude that the home country attitudes, management style, knowledge, evaluation criteria, and managers are superior to anything the host country has to offer
• B)the best managers are multi-lingual
• C)the foreign subsidiary should be managed by local people
• D)conscious belief that only host country managers can ever really understand the culture and behavior of the host country market
• E)belief that the best manager for a specific position may be anywhere in the world

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Definitions:

Outliers

Outliers are data points that differ significantly from other observations, potentially indicating a measurement variation or error.

Symmetrical

A characteristic of a shape or distribution where one half is a mirror image of the other half, usually about a central point or axis.

Unimodal Distribution

A type of distribution that has a single peak or mode, showing one predominant frequency of data points.

Negatively Skewed Distribution

A distribution shape where the tail is on the left side, indicating that the bulk of values are concentrated on the right.