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| Detailed information |
| Original study plan |
Master's programme Joint Master Program Global Business - Russia/Italy 2013W |
| Objectives |
The course aims to prepare students for a global working environment by raising awareness of cultural differences with regard to leadership styles.
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| Subject |
• Cultural Reflection on leadership.
• Knowledge about situational leadership.
• Leadership attitudes towards cooperation, competition, and conflict.
• Activities that enhance group processes, leadership behavior and conflict resolution skills.
• Recognizing cultural differences in leadership and detecting their underlying meaning.
Topic 1 Cultural difference and international management
• Should leadership style be adapted to cultural difference? To what extent?
• How should leadership practices from one culture be proactively transferred and adapted to a new culture?
Topic 2 Gender issues in leadership and organizations across cultures.
• What role typifications do exist?
• How to deal with such typifications?
• How to deal with cultural differences in gender typifications?
Topic 3 Diversity as a chance for development and leadership
• What are possible aspects of diversity?
• What are the critical factors?
• What are the opportunities of diversity?
• What kind of leadership style successfully thrives on diversity?
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| Criteria for evaluation |
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| Language |
English |
| Study material |
Cox, T. H. Blake, S. (1991) Managing cultural diversity: Implications for organizational competitiveness. The Executive, Vol. 5 (3): 45-56.
Dwyer, S. Orlando C. R. Chadwick, K. (2003) Gender diversity in management and firm performance: the influence of growth orientation and organizational culture. Journal of Business Research, Vol. 56 (12): 1009-1019.
House, R., Hanges, P., Javidan, M., Dorfman, P. & Gupta, V. Culture, leadership and organization: The GLOBE study of 62 societies. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, 2004.
Javidan, M., Dorfman, P., Sully de Luque, M. & House, R. In the eye of the beholder:Cross cultural lessons in leadership from the project GLOBE. Academy of Management Perspectives, 2006, 20(1), 67–90.
Markus, H.R. & Kitayama, S. Culture and the self: Implications for cognition, emotion, and motivation. Psychological Review, 1991, 98(2), 224–53.
Seymen, O. A. (2006) The cultural diversity phenomenon in organisations and different approaches for effective cultural diversity management: a literary review. Cross Cultural Management: An International Journal, Vol. 13 (4): 296-315.
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| Changing subject? |
No |
| Further information |
The course is especially designed for students of the Troika program.
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