Global Management Skills
BSM 411
2010
Global Management Skills and Training
Globalization has flattened our borders and increased our opportunities for trade, participating in joint ventures or establishing foreign direct investments in other countries. Unlike managing a business on US soil interacting and directing a company in a foreign country requires an advanced skill set to be successful. Those skills should include a general business education and an advanced or MBA program focused on global management highlighting a particular skill set depending on your interest. This skill set could focus on consumer products, economics, health care, IT, finance, telecommunications or many other areas of business. Along with education, understanding culture and values in a particular country helps ensure motivation and leadership success. Being aware of the countries legal, political status assists in forecasting upcoming changes that could affect operations.
Education and Training
A Bachelor of Arts in Management or Business Administration should be the first step in preparing to become a successful international manager. This path of education will give you a wide-range understanding of what makes an organization work. Topics covered in these types of degree programs cover multiple aspects of the interworking, worker communication, human resources, international business, marketing, economics and overall management skills needed to be successful in many types of organizations. Basic management skills achieved in these types of programs is necessary before you can make the next step into working and managing successfully in a different country. Another helpful part of your education would be a foreign language and/or an exchange program living and going to school in another country to gain real life experience and networking. Many MBA programs offer this type of opportunity in their curriculum. Stanford graduate school of business offers a global management program. The global
2010
Global Management Skills and Training
Globalization has flattened our borders and increased our opportunities for trade, participating in joint ventures or establishing foreign direct investments in other countries. Unlike managing a business on US soil interacting and directing a company in a foreign country requires an advanced skill set to be successful. Those skills should include a general business education and an advanced or MBA program focused on global management highlighting a particular skill set depending on your interest. This skill set could focus on consumer products, economics, health care, IT, finance, telecommunications or many other areas of business. Along with education, understanding culture and values in a particular country helps ensure motivation and leadership success. Being aware of the countries legal, political status assists in forecasting upcoming changes that could affect operations.
Education and Training
A Bachelor of Arts in Management or Business Administration should be the first step in preparing to become a successful international manager. This path of education will give you a wide-range understanding of what makes an organization work. Topics covered in these types of degree programs cover multiple aspects of the interworking, worker communication, human resources, international business, marketing, economics and overall management skills needed to be successful in many types of organizations. Basic management skills achieved in these types of programs is necessary before you can make the next step into working and managing successfully in a different country. Another helpful part of your education would be a foreign language and/or an exchange program living and going to school in another country to gain real life experience and networking. Many MBA programs offer this type of opportunity in their curriculum. Stanford graduate school of business offers a global management program. The global
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