Managing within a Global Context

Learning Outcomes

Knowledge and Understanding

Having successfully completed this module, you will be able to demonstrate knowledge and understanding of:

• challenges surrounding the complexity and dynamism of organisations internationally
• the importance and value of individual differences in managing people within a global context;
• the importance of policies, practices and skills necessary to manage effectively within and across organisations, with emphasis on national culture and institutional differences;

Transferable and Generic Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• evaluate differences in attitudes and behaviours in the workplace;
• Explain the behavior of people within and across different cultures.
• demonstrate effective ways of valuing and managing diversity within a global context
• demonstrate effective communication skills;

Subject Specific Intellectual and Research Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• show knowledge and skills in diversity management across the global context.
• critically evaluate a variety of theoretical models relating to managing effectively in organisations;
• examine contemporary challenges associated with effective management across organisations internationally;
• apply problem-solving techniques drawing upon, and integrating, knowledge to tackle organisational and personnel scenarios within global context;

Topics:

Understanding the global context and globalisation

Equality Diversity and Inclusion in a changing global environment

Culture and the global context

Power and the global context

Leadership and management approaches

Groups/ Teams and technology

Human Resource Management and the global context

With the aim of developing both knowledge and skill, the module will make use of various learning and teaching approaches and methods. Besides more traditional lecture-led sessions, students will be required to work on case studies designed to develop their knowledge and understanding of the subject area; this group work activity will support peer-to-peer learning. The fact that this module emphasises differences in learning across cultures, approaches to selection and training, teamwork and leadership for example across global managerial contexts, demonstrates the commitment to internationalisation and methods of teaching (e.g. case studies, & group discussions) will reflect the commitment in challenging students to think globally.

Formative

This is how we’ll give you feedback as you are learning. It is not a formal test or exam.

Class discussions

• Assessment Type: Formative
• Feedback: Feedback within discussion groups/lectures.
• Final Assessment: No
• Group Work: No

Summative

This is how we’ll formally assess what you have learned in this module.

Referral

This is how we’ll assess you if you don’t meet the criteria to pass this module.

Repeat

An internal repeat is where you take all of your modules again, including any you passed. An external repeat is where you only re-take the modules you failed.