GRA 8167 Intercultural Management (2018/2019)
GRA 8167 Intercultural Management (2018/2019)
In today’s global, highly interrelated and interdependent world, international leaders must be able to manage people from various backgrounds, nations and cultures effectively. A successful leader requires knowledge of differences and similarities across cultural contexts as well as interpersonal competencies and self insight. In the course we explore the complexities and nuances of culture and management and cover the critical areas of motivation, communication, relationships, and negotiation and address organizational level issues related to human resource management and leadership.
The course is designed to help you understand and analyze the critical elements and processes in intercultural management. By using roles plays and cases you will have the opportunity to learn through doing, and the possibility to investigate your own talents, skills, and weaknesses. In addition, we will build on the international and intercultural experiences of the class in order to illustrate both best practices and common pitfalls.
I. Definition of culture and overview of the concepts and research on cross cultural management
II. Intercultural issues related to human behavior at work, leadership, motivation, international human resource management, and interpersonal competencies
I. Apply knowledge about culture and management to intercultural work situations
II. Apply interpersonal skills based on cross cultural understanding for effective group and organizational processes
III. Apply evidence-based research findings to effectively manage diverse groups
I. Your own cultural assumptions and overoming social categorization biases
II. Intercultural management - when does it matter?
III. Intercultural management - how does it matter?
- Introduction to intercultural management
- Overview of the key concepts and research on intercultural management (levels, analysis, typologies)
- Learning from cultural blunders
- Teamwork, decision-making and leadership in cross cultural teams
- Leading cross-cultural global teams
- Cross-cultural aspects of creativity and innovation
- Culture and change
- Relating and networking across cultures: Help-giving and help-seeking in CC
- Cross cultural competence (cultural inteligence)
- Globalization and localization, International HRM & Managing expats
- Exam requirements
- Course wrap up: Reflection activity
1 ECTS credit corresponds to a workload of 26-30 hours.
Attendance to all sessions in the course is compulsory. If you have to miss part(s) of the course you must ask in advance for leave of absence. More than 25% absence in a course will require retaking the entire course. It's the student's own responsibility to obtain any information provided in class that is not included on the course homepage/ It's learning or other course materials.
This is a course with continuous assessment (several exam components) and one final exam code. Each exam component will be graded using points on a scale 0 -100. The components will be weighted together according to the information in the course description in order to calculate the final letter grade for the course. Students who fail to participate in one/some/all exam components will get a lower grade or may fail the course. Candidates may be called in for an oral hearing as a verification/control of written assignments.
Specific information regarding the points system and the mapping scale beyond the information given in the course description will be provided in class. This information may be relevant for requirements for term papers or other hand-ins, and/or where class participation can be one of several elements of the overall evaluation.
The course is a part of a full Executive MBA programme and examination in all courses must be passed in order to obtain a certificate.
Granted admission to the EMBA programme. Please consult our student regulations.
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Exam category: Activity Form of assessment: Presentation and discussion Weight: 40 Grouping: Individual Comment: In class activities and presentations throughout the module, Individual, counting 40 % Exam code: GRA 81671 Grading scale: Point scale leading to ECTS letter grade Resit: All components must, as a main rule, be retaken during next scheduled course |
Exam category: Submission Form of assessment: Written submission Weight: 60 Grouping: Individual Duration: 1 Semester(s) Comment: Individual written assignment, counting 60 %. Exam code: GRA 81671 Grading scale: Point scale leading to ECTS letter grade Resit: All components must, as a main rule, be retaken during next scheduled course |
A course of 1 ECTS credit corresponds to a workload of 26-30 hours. Therefore a course of 4 ECTS credit corresponds to a workload of at least 110 hours.