International Business Environment IMM

1st Part: International Business Environment I: Managing Across Cultures Prof. Dr. Martin J. Gannon Wednesday May, 14 6 – 9 p.m. 0109/10 NP 5 Thursday May, 15 6 – 9 p.m. 0109/10 NP 5 Friday May, 16 6 – 9 p.m. HS IV AB 12 Saturday May, 17 9 a.m. – 3 p.m. HS IV AB 12 Monday May, 19 6 – 9 p.m. 0109/10 NP 5 Tuesday May, 20 6 – 9 p.m. 0109/10 NP 5 Wednesday May, 21 6 – 9 p.m. 0109/10 NP 5 Course Objectives Managing Across Cultures: Cultural Metaphors, and Cross-Cultural Paradoxes and Globalization. 1. To learn to think creatively and in a new way about culture through the use of cultural metaphors (a unique or distinctive activity, institution of a national culture with which its members identify emotionally and/or cognitively, for example, American football, the Chinese family altar, and the Swedish stuga.

2. To learn to move beyond specific ethnic and national cultures by examining 93 cross-cultural paradoxes that are becoming more powerful because of globalization. 3. To obtain an in-depth understanding of some selected national cultures covered in Martin J. Gannon and Raj Pillai's Understanding Global Cultures: Metaphorical Journeys Through 30 Nations, Clusters of Nations, and Continents. 4. To understand cross-cultural differences through the use of short case studies, exercises, cross-cultural videos, and short questionnaires. Contents of the course 1. Opening Exercise: Paradoxes of Culture and Globalization. 2. Continuation of the discussion of the 93 paradoxes of culture and globalization. 3. Continuation of the discussion of the 93 paradoxes of culture and globalization. Introduction to cultural metaphors for understanding specific national cultures. 4. Continuation of the discussion of the 93 paradoxes of culture and globalization, and cultural metaphors. 5. Cross-cultural videos and interpretation of them. 6. Continuation of the discussion of the 93 paradoxes of culture and globalization.and cultural metaphors. 7. Cross-cultural videos and student presentations. 8. Student presentations. 9. Student presentations. 10. Student presentations. Basic Literature 1. Martin J. Gannon, Paradoxes of Culture and Globalization, Sage Publications, June, 2008. Students will receive an e-mail copy of the Extended Table of Contents and one or two electronic chapters. 2. Martin J. Gannon and Raj Pillai, selected electronic chapters from Martin J. Gannon and Raj Pillai's Understanding Global Cultures: Metaphorical Journeys Through 30 Nations, Clusters of Nations, and Continents (fourth edition). Sage Publication, 2009. 2nd Part: Intern. Business Environment II:Organizational Communications Prof. Dr. Ulrich Fröhlich Monday May, 26 6 – 9 p.m. 0109/10 NP 5 Tuesday May, 27 6 – 9 p.m. 0109/10 NP 5 Wednesday May, 28 6 – 9 p.m. 0207 NP 6 Thursday May, 29 6 – 9 p.m. 0109/10 NP 5 Friday May, 30 6 – 9 p.m. HS IV AB 12 Saturday May, 31 9 a.m. – 3 p.m. HS IV AB 12 Course Objectives This is a communications course. The primary purpose is to make you an effective communicator both as a writer and as a speaker. The goal is to improve your writing and speaking abilities consistent with MBA or comparable Master's level executive skills. As one of your first graduate courses, MBA 601's secondary purpose is to provide you with sufficient foundation level training to increase your likelihood of success in other graduate courses that will follow. Contents of the course 1. Course Description: Oral and written forms of business communications; interpersonal and organizational communications; skills development; psychology, human relations, and ethical considerations in communications; report writing. 2. This course utilizes lectures, in class discussions and exercises, case studies, examinations, as well as numerous writing and speaking projects, as the primary means to improve communications skills in a variety of settings. Each class will begin with a review of the key elements of the previous class along with an in-class writing assignment. This is a class about being and doing. We will focus on the communicator (you), the tools for communicating, and the actual process of communicating. Being that the course is taught in a foreign setting an English language exam and a Princeton proficiency exam in business studies will be administered. 3. Since most of the learning will occur in the classroom, attendance is crucial. More than two unexcused absences will result in a lowered final grade. If you have a problem with any class dates, see me ahead of time. 4. Grading will be based substantially on in-class and homework assignments, along with a mid-term, and a final exam. The English language examination will serve as reference material and in-class discussions. The Princeton proficiency examination serves as a testing tool in your field of concentration. 5. The reading of all text materials is encouraged three weeks before commencement of the course. We will use the chapters in the order in which they are delineated in the MBA 601 Class Syllabus Assignments. You should also have a notebook for your personal journal. We will work with an overhead projector and you will receive copies of the transparencies being used. You will also receive numerous handouts in class and file them in consecutive order. It is imperative that you keep a large folder with all handouts, which must be used as study guides in preparation for all exams. Basic Literature 1. Effective Business Communications, seventh edition, Murphy, Hildebrandt, and Thomas, Mc Graw Hill,1997. 2. Elements of Style, third edition, Strunk and White 3. Writing With Power, second edition, Elbow

FB 07 Wirtschaftswissenschaften Uni Kassel SS 2008 Lehrveranstaltungspool FB 07 Prof. Dr. Fröhlich Ulrich