Chapter 6

Question 1

A worldview that values assertiveness, performance, success, and competition

Answer 1

Achievement orientation

Question 2

Favors that make it difficult and costly for an organization to enter a particular task environment or industry

Answer 2

Barriers to entry

Question 3

Customers preference for the products of organizations currently existing in the task environment

Answer 3

Brandon loyalty

Question 4

A worldview that values subordination of the individual to the goals of the group and adherence to the principal that people should be judged by their contribution to the group

Answer 4

Collectivism

Question 5

Organizations that produce goods and services that are similar to a particular organization’s goods and services

Answer 5

Competitors

Question 6

individuals and groups that buy the goods and sercies that an organiztion produces

Answer 6

Customers

Question 7

outcomes of changes in, or changing attitudes toward, the characteristics of a population, such as age, gender, ethnci origin, race, sexual orientation, and social class

Answer 7

Demographc Factors

Question 8

organzations that help other organizations sell ther goods or services to customers

Answer 8

distributors

Question 9

interest rates, inflation, unemployment, econmic growth, and other factors that affect the general health and wll bieng of a nation or the regional economy of an organization

Answer 9

economic forces

Question 10

cost advantages associated with large operations

Answer 10

economies of scale

Question 11

the idea that if each country specializes in the production of the goods and services that it can produce most efficiently, this will make the best use of gobal r4esources.

Answer 11

free trade dcotrine

Question 12

the routine social conventions of everyday life

Answer 12

folkways

Question 13

the wide ranging global, economic, technologicalm sociocultrural, deomgraphic, political, and lega forces taht affect an organization and its task environment

Answer 13

general environment

Question 14

the set of global forces and conditions that operate beyond an organizations bourndaries but affect a mangers ability to acquire and tilize resources.

Answer 14

global environment

Question 15

the set of specific and general forces that work together to integrate and connect economic, political, and social systems across countriesm cultures, or geographical regions so that nations become increasingly interdependent and similar

Answer 15

globalization

Question 16

an organization that operates and competes in more than one country

Answer 16

global organization

Question 17

the purchase of inputs from overseas suppliers or the production of inputs abroad to lower production costs andimprove product quality or design

Answer 17

global outsourcing

Question 18

a woldview that values individual freedom and self expression and adherence to the principle that peope should be judged by their individual acheivements rather than by their social background

Answer 18

individualism

Question 19

a wolrdview that values thrist and perisitence in achieving goals

Answer 19

long term orientation

Question 20

norms that are considered to be central to the funcitoning of society and to social life

Answer 20

mores

Question 21

the set of values that a society considers impoertant and the norms of behavior that are approved or sanctioned in that society

Answer 21

national culture

Question 22

unwritten rules and codes of condut that prescibe how oeople should act in particular situations.

Answer 22

norms

Question 23

a wolrdview that values th qualtiy of life, warm personal friendships, and services and care for the weak

Answer 23

nurturing orientation

Question 24

outcomes of changes in laws and reulations, such as the deregulation of industries, the privatiziation of organizationsm and the increased emphasis on evinmental protections

Answer 24

political and legal forces

Question 25

organizations that presently are not in a task enviroment bu could enter if they so choose

Answer 25

potential competitors

Question 26

the degree to which societies accept the idea that inequalities in the power and well bieng of their citizens are due to differences in individuals physical and intellectual capabilities and heritage

Answer 26

power distance

Question 27

a wolrdview that values perosnal stability or happiness and living for the present

Answer 27

short term orientation

Question 28

the arrangement of relationships between individuals and groups in a society

Answer 28

social structure

Question 29

pressues emanting from the social structure of a country or society or form the national culture

Answer 29

sociocultural forces

Question 30

indivuals and organizations that provide an organization with the input resources that it needs to produce goods and services

Answer 30

suppliers

Question 31

a tax that a government imposes on imprted or, occasiaonally exported goods

Answer 31

tarriff

Question 32

the set of forces and conditions that orginate with suppliers, distributors, customers, and competitors and affect an organizations ability to obtain inputs and dispose of its outputs because they influence managers on a daily basis

Answer 32

task environment

Question 33

the combination of skils and equipment that mangers use in th edsign, producion, and distribution of goods and services

Answer 33

technology

Question 34

outcomes of changes in the techonlogy that managers use to design, produce, and distribute goods and services

Answer 34

technological forces

Question 35

the degree to which societies are willing to tolerate uncetrainty and risk

Answer 35

uncertainty avoidance

Question 36

ideas about what a society believes to be good, right, desirable, or beautiful

Answer 36

values