MAN 5012 International Management
MAN 5012 International Management
| MAN 5013 - 1. semester | |
| MAN 5014 - 2. semester |
Are you planning to work abroad or in an international company? This programme gives useful tools and a deeper understanding on how to plan and manage international operations. The programme is structured around the following five issues:
- The international context: If a firm wants to internationalize, where should it go?
- Strategy and Organization: How can the company succeed, and how organize foreign units?
- Management: How should the people in foreign units be managed, and by whom?
- Emerging Markets: What specific challenges exist if the firm operates in emerging markets, like China ?
- Process and Implementation: How can the international company manage its businesses successfully?
This programme focuses on two main topics within international management. First, we look at the cultural and institutional context in which international firms operate. The programme is especially focusing on emergent markets as an institutional and cultural setting, and students will get tools for assessing cultural differences and discuss the implications of these differences in managing the international firm. The second topic is international strategy and organisation. We review key concepts and models, and participants will learn how to analyze strategic challenges and make strategic decisions, as well as look at implications of strategy for organization and processes.
The programme comprises an inter-disciplinary approach with perspectives from strategic management, human resource management, social sciences and cultural studies. The program provides first-hand experience of different cultures and utilizes these in a comparative analysis of relevant issues within international management. The programme focuses both on the European business culture as well as cultures in emerging economies, like China. The programme includes a study-trip to Shanghai.
The programme provides numerous opportunities for the sharing of practical experiences and for building networks trough meeting businesses abroad and working with other internationally oriented students. The programme is ideally suited for managers, project leaders and professionals in the private and public sector who have, or wish to have, international assignments and responsibilities. This programme is run in close cooperation with the business school at Fudan University in Shanghai. All teaching is English
- Knowledge about key theories and concepts in international management and strategy
- Knowledge about key theories on multinational enterprises
- Knowledge about key theories on globalization with a focus on the role of emerging economies
- Knowledge about the role of human resource management, communication, negotiation and knowledge transfer In international operations.
- Skills in applying core models and concepts in international management and strategy to practical situations.
- Skills in managing international teams
- Skills in how to communicate and negotiate across cultures
- Skills in promoting learning and knowledge sharing across countries and business units
- Ability to reflect on the meaning of culture and understand its impact on own management practice
- Ability to reflect on new knowledge and information from established theoretical perspectives on international management
- Ability to see how international challenges can create new business opportunities
1st course module
Introducing International Management Models: Context, culture and strategy
2nd course module
Organization of international operations and networks between firms.
3rd course module
People in international organizations: International Human Resource Management and Negotiations
4th course module
International management in an Asian context: Business life and management in China. Study-trip to Shanghai. Focus: Environment, Strategy, and Management
5th course module
International Management: Combining theory and practice
The programme is conducted through five course modules over two semesters, a total of approx. 150 lecturing hours.
Project tutorials differ in each Executive Master of Management programme. It will consist of personal tutorials and tutorials given in class. Generally the students may expect consulting tutorials, not evaluating tutorials. The total hours of tutorials offered is estimated to 4 hours per term paper.
Please note that while attendance is not compulsory in all programmes, it is the student's own responsibility to obtain any information provided in class that is not included on the course homepage/ itslearning or other course materials.
The students are evaluated through a term paper, counting 60% of the total grade and a 72 hours individual home exam counting 40%. The term paper may be written individually or in groups of maximum three persons. All evaluations must be passed to obtain a certificate for the programme.
The term paper is included in the degree’s independent work of degree, cf national regulation on requirements for master’s degree, equivalent to 18 ECTS credits per. programme. For the Executive Master of Management degree, the independent work of degree represents the sum of term papers from three programmes.
Bachelor degree, corresponding to 180 credits from an accredited university, university college or similar educational institution
The applicant must be at least 25 years of age
At least four years of work experience. For applicants who have already completed a master’s degree, three years of work experience are required.
| Assessments |
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Exam category: Submission Form of assessment: Written submission Weight: 60 Grouping: Group/Individual (1 - 3) Duration: 2 Semester(s) Comment: Term paper, counting 60% of the total grade. Exam code: MAN 50121 Grading scale: ECTS |
Exam category: Submission Form of assessment: Written submission Weight: 40 Grouping: Individual Duration: 72 Hour(s) Comment: Individual 72 hours home exam counting 40% of the total grade. Exam code: MAN 50122 Grading scale: ECTS |
All exams must be passed to get a grade in this course.
A course of 1 ECTS credit corresponds to a workload of 26-30 hours. Therefore a course of 30 ECTS credit corresponds to a workload of at least 800 hours.