Jana Has Spent the Last Year Traveling to Different Operations

question 136

Multiple Choice

Jana has spent the last year traveling to different operations for her company. She visited factories in Mexico and Thailand, a finance operation in Singapore, a pearl company in Japan, and many other venues. She now has collected her thoughts about the various places she visited.
-In Greece Jana visited a pharmaceutical operation.She found that managers there were charming but not at all shy.If they thought they were right they tended to be aggressive and confrontational.How would you characterize this trait?

• A)high uncertainty avoidance
• B)assertive
• C)future oriented
• D)low uncertainty avoidance

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Definitions:

Absolute Advantage

The ability of an entity to produce a good or service more efficiently than its competitors with the same amount of resources.

Production Possibilities

The various combinations of goods and services that can be produced using all available resources and technology.

Opportunity Cost

The cost of foregoing the next best alternative when making a decision, representing the benefits one misses out on when choosing one option over another.

Constant Rate

A fixed value of change in a quantity with respect to another quantity, often used in mathematics and economics to describe steady growth or decline.