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   INTERCULTURAL MANAGEMENT / Comparative International Management

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OBJECTIVES and COURSE DESCRIPTION

This course focuses on the study of management and organisational behaviour across different countries and systems, identifying differences and similarities, reasons for them and the impact they have on international management.

The second objective of the course is to increase the participants’ awareness to cultural differences, helping them to overcome the considerable difficulties which arise when negotiating and doing business in an international setting and when interacting with persons from different nationalities.

At the end of the course students should be able to:

§   Have a good knowledge of the main models within the Intercultural Management field and relate these models to international management issues.

§   Be aware of the importance of national culture in the different areas of management, including in communicating and negotiating with partners with different cultural backgrounds.

§   Increase their intercultural intelligence.

 

MAIN TOPICS

1 – Management and organisational behaviour in different contexts: differences and similarities across countries. Economic development and culture.

The field of Intercultural Management/Comparative Management. Types of studies.

2 – Culture as an explanatory factor. Hofstede’s dimensions: power distance, uncertainty avoidance, individualism, masculinity. Additional dimensions.

3 – Intercultural communication and negotiating.

 

 

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Adler, Nancy - International Dimensions of Organizational Behavior  South-Western College Pub. 2202 (4th Ed.)

Fukuda, Kazuo – Japanese Management in East Asia and Beyond – The Chinese Univ.Press (HK), 1997

Gesteland, Richard – Cross-Cultural Business Behavior – Copenhagen Business School Press, 2005 (4th Ed)

Hofstede, Geert - Cultures and Organizations: Software of the Mind – McGraw-Hill, 2011

Huntington, Samuel – The Clash of Civilizations – Remaking of World Order, 1996

Lewis, Richard – When Cultures Collide – Nicholas Brealey Pub., 1999

Robalo, A. – Comparative management – Sílabo, 2004  (Bilingual edition)

Trompenaars, Fons - Riding the Waves of Culture - N. Brealey, 1997

Class Handouts: Various readings

 

   

 

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Last updated: 02-Jan-2012.