Please answer all of the following questions. Each question is worth 20 points.

1) Discuss organizational culture, and the interaction of national and MNC cultures.

2) DISCUSS the value of country cluster analysis and relational orientations in developing effective international management practices.

3) DISCUSS ethics in international management and some of the major ethical issues and problems confronting MNCs.

4) DISCUSS some of the pressures on and action being taken by selected industrialized countries and companies to be more socially and environmentally responsive to world problems.

5) EXPLAIN some of the initiatives to bring greater accountability to corporate conduct and limit the impacts of corruption around the world, including what needs to be done next in the modern economy.

6) REVIEW key technological developments, including the growth of e-commerce, and discuss their impact on MNCs now and in the future.

7) How does explicit communication differ from implicit communication? Which is one culture that makes wide use of explicit communication? Implicit communication? Describe how one would go about conveying the following message in each of the two cultures you identified: "You are trying very hard, but you are still making too many mistakes."