School of Management & Economics
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Syllabus Intercultural Management
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Interculatural Management
Fanchen Meng
MBA
Week 4-Week 16
3
Course description:
In the context of globalization, international cooperation becomes more important in the business world. For many multinational enterprises and managers who are internationally active it is big challenge to handle with the problems caused by cultural differences. This module emphasizes on the cultural issues in the business world. This module consist of basic understanding of culture, theoretical models for comparison of cultural differences, awareness of cultural specific problems in international economic co-operations through short and long cases. This will help the students to understand the complexity of the globalized business word and the most appropriate approaches associated with management cross cultures and intercultural communication and negotiation. The students should be able to describe „Intercultural Management“ as a segment of international management and understand such approaches as well in order to improve their intercultural competences.
Examination:
Final individual report
Group presentation:
Case analysis:
Participation portfolio and discussion:
50%
20%
20%
10%
In the context of globalization, international cooperation becomes more important in the business world. For many multinational enterprises and managers who are internationally active it is big challenge to handle with the problems caused by cultural differences. This module emphasizes on the cultural issues in the business world. This module consist of basic understanding of culture, theoretical models for comparison of cultural differences, awareness of cultural specific problems in international economic
co-operations