strategy

1)    What is an executive type?  What is their significance to strategy?

 

2)    What is executive succession?  Discuss the hiring of insiders versus outsiders.

 

3) What are some of the approaches a company can take to identify and prepare its people for important positions?

 

4) List the guidelines proposed for successful downsizing.

 

5) What three general practices were identified by Black and Gregersen in companies which do a good job of managing foreign assignments?

 

6) What are the four general methods of managing two different cultures?

 

7) What information should an action plan include?

 

8) What are the four elements of the MBO process?

 

9) What is TQM and what are its essential ingredients?

 

10) What are Hofstede's dimensions of national culture?