INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY & SCIENCE

     MOHAN NAGAR, GHAZIABAD

Subject: Cross Cultural Management Code: KMBIB05

Important questions UNIT wise

UNIT 1
1. What are the different cultural norms and values, and how do they differ around the
world?
2. What does Culture have to do with Business? Explain the role of culture in the Global
business scenario.
3. Analyze the nature of organizational culture.How can you measure the ongoing
improvements in corporate culture?
4. Is it possible to change a culture? If so, how?

UNIT 2
1. How do cultures affect the communication process of an organization and to what
extent? Design a communication strategy for an Indian MNC.
2. Discuss in context to Kohlberg, Malcolm X, and Martin Luther King Jr, Are some
societies better than others ?.
3. Discuss the Kohlberg’s Theory of Moral Reasoning.

UNIT 3
1. What is cross-cultural negotiation? Discuss the structure of negotiation in an
organisational context. Explain its importance.
2. Explain in detail the management implications of Trompenaar's cultural dimension of
specific Vs diffuse.
3. Distinguish between High context and Low context cultures highlighting the
implication of the concept in Cross cultural Management.
4. Define the meaning of Hofstede’s dimensions of cultural analysis.

UNIT 4
1. What are the factors influences while building a high performance winning team? How
the adverse factors can overcome?
2. Enumerate the factors determining successful organizational change. Explain with
suitable examples the different steps that can be followed in designing the strategy for
building cultural change?
3. How religions influence corporate culture? How a manager overcomes these types of
situations when he deals employees of different religions?
4. Explain Cross-cultural intelligence. How can we enhance managerial competence
Applying it?
 5. Briefly summarize the major theories of motivation and lists one practical suggestions
motivating employees.
6. In order to manage multicultural and diverse teams in today's organisations what are
the atrributes and abilities that a global manager must have?
7.
UNIT 5
1. What inter-country differences affect HRM? Analyse the behaviours that are necessary to
build high performance organizational personnel?
2. What are the basic issues involved in recruiting and selecting managers for foreign
assignments? What special training do overseas candidates need?
3. Discuss the Corporate Social Responsibility in MNC’s.

Other questions
1. Discuss Monochronic and polychronic cultures and their implications on the global
management scenario.
2. What are the skills needed for cross culture decision making?
3. List out different traits of Leadership.
4. Explain the difference between corporate culture of USA and Japan.
5. What do you measure in a change process? What are the metrics chosen for
measurement? Why?

Short questions
1. Define cross - cultural management.
2. What are the elements of culture?
3. What are the repatriates problems faced by international firms
4. Why is culture important for an organization?
5. Define Relativism in context of culture diversity.
6. What do you mean by multiethnicity?
7. How does creativity enter into action?
8. Discuss Monochronic and polychronic cultures.
9. Discuss Pragmatic Versus Normative.
10. What is BATNA? Discuss win-win negotiation.