Scenario: Gem Jewels Gem Jewels Recently Established a Number of Subsidiaries in Various

question 49

Multiple Choice

Scenario: Gem Jewels
Gem Jewels recently established a number of subsidiaries in various foreign countries aiming to build high levels of international business involvement in the coming years. Cultural training has to be given by the company to home-country managers assigned to work in the new subsidiaries.
-If Gem Jewels wants its employees to get "into the minds" of the local people,it should provide ________.

• A) language training
• B) sensitivity training
• C) cultural orientations
• D) environmental briefings

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Definitions:

Operant Conditioning

A method of learning that employs rewards and punishments for behavior, encouraging the subject to associate certain behaviors with consequences.

Classical Conditioning

A learning strategy in which two stimuli are continually paired; the response that is initially attracted by the second stimulus is in time attracted by the first stimulus alone.

Observational Learning

The act of acquiring behaviors through observation and replication of others.

Classical Conditioning

A method of instruction that occurs by forming associations between a stimulus present in the surroundings and a spontaneously occurring stimulus, culminating in an acquired response.