Greetings and welcome to MGMT 604 – Cross Cultural Management
Instructor: Frank. R. Lazzara, Ph.D
Email: frank.lazzara@mycampus.apus.edu
Phone: (e-mail contact is best)
Office Hours: Monday – Friday 8:00am-10:00pm EST
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Course Description (Catalog)
This course is an examination of individual dimensions of global executive leadership, organizational behavior, inter-group relations, and strategies for internal corporate communication. Course topics include management and global trade, special aspects of operating successfully in the global environment, the executive's role in solving conflicts and creating corporations in the world marketplace, cultural aspects of international operations management and ethical corporate strategies in an international context.
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Course Scope
This course is divided into 8 weeks and is logically organized as an introduction and overview of management in cross cultural organizations and global work environments, the core concepts and analytical tools, and conceptual and experiential approaches to human resources (HR) from a global perspective. This will be accomplished by the use of text book Readings, Case studies, practical exercises, and online forum interaction and participation culminated by a final paper which will explore a contemporary global operation.
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Course Objectives
After successfully completing this course, you will be able to
LO1: Assess the political, economic, legal, and technological elements of an environment – whether domestically or internationally.
LO2: Examine the role and function of culture in terms of cross-cultural communication, decision making, and negotiations.
LO3: Compare and Contrast various strategies used to build and form global alliances, organizational structures, and control systems.
LO4: Assess approaches used by Global Human Resource Managers and Organizations to staff, training, develop, motivate and lead employees in the workplace of the 21st century.
LO5: Analyze the role of cross cultural management.
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Course Delivery Method
This course delivered via distance learning will enable students to complete academic work in a flexible manner, completely online. Course materials and access to an online learning management system will be made available to each student. Online assignments are due by Sunday evening of the week as noted and include Forum questions (accomplished in groups through a threaded forum), examination, and individual assignments submitted for review by the Faculty Member). Assigned faculty will support the students throughout this eight-week course.
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Course Resources
Required Course Textbooks:
Deresky, H (2013). International Management, Management Across Borders. 8th ed. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson Prentice Hall
ISBN: 978-0-13-306212-0
Required Readings: Publication Manual, American Psychological Association (Edition 6)
Web Sites
In addition to the required course texts, the following public domain web sites are useful. Please abide by the university’s academic honesty policy when using Internet sources as well. Note web site addresses are subject to change.
Site Name Website URL/Address
The OWL at Purdue http://owl.english.purdue.edu/
APA Style Homepage http://www.apastyle.org/index.aspx
Academy of Management http://www.aom.org/
Business Net http://www.bnet.com
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Evaluation Procedures
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