INFORMATION AND BCP MINI-TEST

(MANAGERIAL STYLE IN BUSINESS CULTURE PROFILE)

INTRODUCTION

Are you already running or taking part in a business partnership project? ... Preparing or planning a project? ... Reorienting your operations towards the international area? The BCP mini-test, even with its known limitations, could be useful. The mini-diagnosis reveals the main tendency in one dimension of your business culture profile. For validation purposes and detailled characteristics, for comprehensive self-knowledge and adequate preparation to fruitful partnership relations, the complete BCP Test is mandatory.

PART ONE - PERSONAL INFORMATION

Please briefly answer all questions.
This information is required to better understand your expectations, convey a meaningful diagnosis and suggest appropriate actions.
No scoring or mini-diagnosis report if Part One questionnaire is not properly and completely filled out.

Surname and first name

SECTOR OF ACTIVITY AND FUNCTION
What sector of activity are you working in? In what role or function?

INTERNATIONAL ACTIVITIES
Briefly describe international activities in which you are involved or expecting to get involved.
Specify the sector, ... business partnership abroad or international cooperation.

EXPECTATIONS AND NEEDS
Briefly, what do you foresee as coming developments? How do you get yourself prepared? What type of assistance do you need?

Would you like to know more about the complete BCP test?
YES, without any obligation
NO, thanks

COUNTRIES/REGIONS FOR BCP COMPARISON
Choose two countries or regions in the following list, the native country and a destination country you wish to select as reference profiles for comparison with your own profile. Please, just two selections.
Arab World
Australia
Canada
China
France
Germany
 Great Britain
India
Italy
Japan
Latin America
Middle-East
 South Africa
South-East Asia
Sweden
Switzerland
United States
West Africa

PART TWO - BCP MINI-TEST

NOTE: This mini-test only covers the "Managerial Style" parameter of the business culture profile. What type of manager are you? ... with extensive and detailed programming, with uniform standards in problem solutions? ... with general orientations and flexible programming, with particular considerations in problem solutions? The complete test deals with all five business culture descriptive parameters.

Read the statement in each question, gauge your degree of agreement or desagreement, then click on your answer, only one in the given choice :
( +++ ) strongly agree ; ( ++ ) agree ; ( + ) mildly agree ;
( - ) mildly disagree ; ( - - ) disagree ; ( - - - ) strongly disagree

Answer as if you were an executive managing and working at ease within a business culture which you consider ideal.

1. For a sound decision, personal factors must be taken
into consideration; it is acceptable
if sometimes the usual rules were broken.

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2. A meeting will be productive only if held
with a precise agenda and up-to-the-point concise
presentations solely from concerned persons.

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3. No enterprise can pretend to efficiency unless
a complete set of policies and procedures,
rules and regulations covers all its operations.

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4. A good manager can only be one who strictly applies the rules
which proved to be efficient. He should refuse to adjust
the practices to the situation, opposing person or context.

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5. An operation will be successful, only if the precise plan
of actions is strictly followed, if the manager neither is disturbed
by the course of actions nor gets involved in parallel activities.

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