Faculty
Cand.merc

Course Coordinator
Eric Guthey

Bachelor degree. The course is offered as a required component during the first year of the CMI concentration in Intercultural Management, but it is also open to students in other graduate programmes at CBS, including international students.

Integration

This course stands alone as an advanced master's level class, but it also provides a springboard for issues explored further in Global Leadership and Communication,Managing Cultures as Strategic Resources, Leading Projects and Project Teams. The course also supplements the required first semester courses in Business and Development Studies.

Leadership and Management in Action offers students an extended opportunity for practical discussion and critical analysis of the relationship between leadership and management in an ever more global and organisationally diverse environment. In the course, students and faculty will examine and discuss an array of case studies chosen to exemplify the complex strategic, organisational and interpersonal dynamics of leading and managing in an intercultural business environment on a day-to-day basis.

The course will also address the methodological issues raised by the use of case method for learning about the interrelated dynamics of leadership and management, and provide participants with the opportunity to develop effective skills in case discussion, analysis, and presentation.

Themes covered in cases will include: intercultural aspects of strategy formation and marketing across cultures; the management of corporate culture in an international environment; the intercultural dynamics of international management; the management of conflict in intercultural situations; the role of national culture in management and business decisions; managing cultural diversity; team dynamics in global contexts; leadership; gender; discrimination; and managing change in intercultural organisations.

At the end of the course, students should be able to:

Class time will consist almost entirely of case-based discussions, with very few formal lectures, and with students actively involved in analysing and presenting cases. Students will be strongly encouraged to form study groups, which meet outside of class to prepare and discuss cases in advance.

Individual oral examination on all material covered in the course, based on a three pages written synopsis to be handed in two weeks before the exam. The content of the synopsis is chosen by the student. It is not graded and may be written with one or two fellow students, and it serves as a starting point for the discussion. Duration including marking: 20 minutes.

Course materials consist exclusively of business cases published by such institutions as the Harvard Business School, The Richard Ivey School of Business at the University of Western Ontario, the Darden School of Business at the University of Virginia, the International Institute for Management Development (IMD), and the INSEAD Business School.