This course is designed to integrate the organization and management theories in the area with real world applications to provide students with the basic knowledge and skills needed for managing in global organizations. This course begins with a discussion of the current issues in global management and then proceeds to cover the major traditional functions of management. Instructors’ lectures and students’ discussion seminars given in the course are intended to help students understand the needs of modern public and private organizations, including emerging international trends. By the end of the course, students should be able to identify the principals of managing organizations, recognize the various challenges faced by today’s global managers and give examples of organizations engaging in the management functions of planning, organizing, leading and controlling.
Overview
Syllabus
- Chapter I Managers and You in the Workplace
- 1. Tell who managers are and where they work
- 2. Describe functions, roles, and skills of managers
- 3. Describe Factors that are reshaping and redefining the manager’s job
- 4. Explain the value of studying management
- Discussion 1
- Chapter II Managing the External Environment and the Organization’s Culture
- 1. Contrast actions of managers according to the omnipotent and symbolic views
- 2. Describe the constraints and challenges facing managers in today’s external environment
- 3. Discuss the characteristics and importance of organizational culture, example of Huawei, and Confucius culture
- 4. Describe current issues in organizational culture
- Discussion 2
- Chapter III Managing in a Global Environment
- 1. Discuss the global perspectives, the Belt and Road Initiative, and a Community of Shared Future for Mankind
- 2. Discuss the importance of regional trading alliances and global trade mechanisms
- 3. Describe the structures and techniques organizations use as they go international
- 4. Explain the relevance of the political/legal, economic, and cultural environments to global business
- 5. Global management in today’s world
- Discussion 3
- Chapter IV Managing Diversity
- 1. Define workplace diversity and why managing it is so important
- 2. Describe the changing workplaces in the world and different types of diversity found in workplaces
- 3. Discuss the challenges managers face in managing diversity
- 4. Describe various workplace diversity management initiatives
- Discussion 4
- Chapter V Managing Social Responsibility and Ethics
- 1. Discuss what it means to be socially responsible and what factors influence that decision
- 2. Explain green management and how organizations can go green
- 3. Discuss the factors that lead to ethical and unethical behavior
- 4. Describe management’s role in encouraging ethical behavior
- 5. Discuss current social responsibility and ethics issues
- Discussion 5
- Chapter VI Making Decisions
- 1. Describe the eight steps in the decision-making process
- 2. Explain the four ways managers make decisions
- 3. Classify decisions and decision-making conditions
- 4. Describe how biases affect decision making
- 5. Identify effective decision-making techniques
- Chapter VII Planning and Control
- 1. Define the nature and purposes of planning
- 2. Classify the types of goals plans
- 3. Compare and contrast approaches to goal-setting and planning
- 4. Explain the nature and importance of control
- 5. Describe three steps in the control process
- 6. Know how to measure organizational and employee performance
- 7. Describe tools used to measure organizational performance
- Chapter VIII Management Communication in Transition
- 1. Explain the definition and model of communications
- 2. Describe the elements and principles of communications
- chapter IX International Human Resource Management
- 1. Explain the importance of HRM and the HRM process
- 2. Describe the external influences affecting the HRM process
- 3. Know how to write effective job descriptions
- 4. Develop the skill at being a good interviewer
- Chapter X Global Innovation Management
- 1. Explain innovation basics
- 2. Discuss innovation in the global context
- 3. Describe open innovation
- examination
Taught by
Rong Du, Lijuan Huang, Zhang Weili, Zhongquan Hu, and Dong Ming
