Managing Across Cultures (BMGT4317)

Studying alongside business students on this course, this module would supplement the Professional Development MA/MSc with relevant and contemporary business insights.

Part of Worcester Business School MSc courses

This module is part of the Worcester Business School MSc courses. You will study alongside other Business School masters students. The module is also part of the Professional Development MA/MSc course - a flexible course that you help design to take your career to the next level.

Overview

This module takes as its starting point the assumption that management of organisations, large and small, is now usually done across national boundaries. This is due to competitive forces as well as technological and political changes. These dynamic shifts have led to the need for managers to have more than a passing appreciation of the cultures that various stakeholders come from. The stakeholders include customers, employees and suppliers as well as governments and competitors and it is the relationship between these and the manager which this module seeks to explore.

This module examines the task of management in today's international and global business environment. It critically examines the key tasks of management and the theories that underpin them, considering the appropriateness of theory, models and concepts to differing cultural environments and developing an approach which places theory in the cultural context within which it operates.

The module is taught via weekly, 2-hour sessions. Please contact wbs@worc.ac.uk to confirm times and dates for the next delivery of this module.

It is expected that all advertised modules will run, but there may be situations where there are insufficient students to make a particular module viable.

Career benefits

This module will enable students to assess the impact of culture on business context in cross-cultural and international contexts.

Managing across-cultural context and working within cultural diverse teams, they will reflect on their role and how they can apply learning to improve across various areas of management including working in cross-cultural teams, motivating culturally diverse and international teams, intercultural communication, negotiation in cross-cultural context and ethical practices, which they will be able to demonstrate through developing critical analysis and application for theory based on their chosen culture.

Module delivery

This module will adopt primarily a format of a lecture/seminar sessions and the use of online platform (Blackboard) to compliment and support classroom learning. Students will also be engaged in formative and independent learning activities.

Assessment methods

This module is assessed by:

Group poster
Closed book exam - 1.5 hours

Entry Requirements

Admission to this modules typically requires:

A second class honours degree in any subject (or International students holding a qualification recognised as equivalent by the University).

Students whose first language is not English are required to demonstrate proficiency to a minimum level of 6.5 IELTS (and minimum of 5.5 in each element) or equivalent